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On Wednesday, the country's sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, told state television that the country's team would not participate in the tournament in the U.S. “considering this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader,” according to the New York Times.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A nation that has made war on multiple countries within the last year is not fit to host an international sports event. More teams should drop out.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only is the Untied States hostile attacking other countries, they're arbitrarily imprisoning tourists. It's madness to let them host an international event

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Just talked to someone here on business and he was unfair to have been sent here and his family had wanted to go to American amusement parks for a vacation and he said absolutely no way with this administration.

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