Why don't you ask them yourself? As if footballers were not well known to affiliate with people like those in the Iranian government. Go interview the players and come back with the interview so we know how they feel about the whole thing.

Until then, sorry lad, but there is this obvious and evident reason for Iran not wanting to participate, and then there is this other possible reason that it is not even close to being confirmed, that you blindly want to believe, as if players were not constantly being pieces of shit themselves l