3 More Iran Football Team Members Change Minds over Asylum

Monday, March 16, 2026

Three more members of the Iranian women's football delegation - who were given humanitarian visas to stay in Australia - have changed their mind and will return home.

Posted by REDIAL at 10:30 AM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

"Overnight, three members of the Iranian Women's Football Team made the decision to join the rest of the team on their journey back to Iran," Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement. https://to.pbs.org/3PnB3Rr

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Mar 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM

Comments

They are Iranians, Not Australians.

Their Country was Attacked by more Powerful and Devious Enemies.

Why Would they Stay in Australia?

Their Families and lives are in Iran.

It's Amazing to Me that the Australians thought they would stay.

It's like they think "Safety" is the only human Need or Value.

Dumb.

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-15 12:55 PM

Their Families and lives are in Iran.

Exactly, Iran was probably threatening their families.

This is the same regime that killed citizens in the streets by the 1000s just 4 weeks or so ago.

It's Amazing to Me that the Australians thought they would stay.

Agreed when Iran is nothing but a thug country with Islamic pretenses.

It's like they think "Safety" is the only human Need or Value.

Not the "only" but certainly a primary, nothing like leveraging your loved ones back home to emotionally blackmail you.

Nice work FootPoser, you finally get it.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-15 01:30 PM

Exactly, Iran was probably threatening their families.
POSTED BY CSAMRUNT

Your child-raping hero is bombing those families for fun.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-15 01:36 PM

The team captain is also going back to Iran.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-15 04:27 PM

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer
#2 | Posted by oneironaut

Wow, you actually both have valid comments on this. Paint me stunned. I can see them wanting to be near family and at the same time I can see the government blackmailing them.

#5 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2026-03-16 11:28 AM

...killed citizens in the streets by the 1000s...
#2 | Posted by oneironaut

Like King Dotard wouldn't if he could.

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-03-16 12:10 PM

I'll be SHOCKED when we learn their families were threatened if they didn't reconsider!!!

#7 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-03-16 01:26 PM

I'll be SHOCKED when we learn their families were threatened if they didn't reconsider!!!
#7 | Posted by kwrx25

Like when ICE deports someone and tells them, take your United States citizen kid with you, or we will keep her in the camps.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-16 01:28 PM

Their families were probably kidnapped and being held hostage. That's what Islam does.

#9 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-16 04:08 PM

Prove it liar.

#10 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-16 07:09 PM

Prove it liar.
#10 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER

You're funny, you wouldn't believe it if her family was dismembered and sent to your doorstep.

But here :

Shiva Amini, an exiled Iranian former soccer player, claimed the players chose to go home following "intense and systemic pressure on the players' families" from Iran's Football Federation.

"Several of the players decided to go back because the threats against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless," she wrote on X on Sunday.
x.com

Like King Dotard wouldn't if he could.
#6 | POSTED BY TFDNIHILIST

Liar... this is an old Marxist Herbert Marcuse trick.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-16 07:25 PM

Like when ICE deports someone and tells them, take your United States citizen kid with you, or we will keep her in the camps.
#8 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

No its nothing like that...

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-16 07:26 PM

There is no doubt their families and friends were kidnapped and tortured in order to force these women to return to Iran where they will immediate be arrested and tortured.

The fact they didn't think their actions through before they took them is unfortunate.

If you're going to defect you have to be willing to accept any consequences for the people you leave behind. Because they're the ones who will pay for your decision.

Most people would be willing to put up with incarceration and a few broken ribs if it meant their loved ones were free.

Best of luck to these women.

They're not going ti see daylight for quite some time.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-16 07:32 PM

this is an old Marxist Herbert Marcuse trick.
#11 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Which part of it is the trick?

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-16 07:34 PM

Isn't Clownshack Iranian?

I remember reading that somewhere.

Why did you leave Iran or was it with your parents?

What year?

I also remember reading you are Gay.

I know Iran is a bad place to be Gay.

Is that why you left?

Are you Muslim?

I mean no Disrespect.

I'm trying to understand what's Really going on.

Seriously.

#15 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-16 07:41 PM

...an old Marxist Herbert Marcuse trick.
#11 | Posted by oneironaut

I have no idea what that means, but if you believe King Dotard wouldn't mow down protesters in the street if he could get away with it, you haven't been paying attention.

#16 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-03-16 07:44 PM

Why did you leave Iran or was it with your parents?

I was born here.

Parents moved to America in the mid 60's for college.

Sorry to tell you, Iran doesn't have a benevolent government.

Most people living there are miserable.

Sad thing is, the majority of Iranians love America.

Despite how many times America has ---- up their government.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-16 10:15 PM

Are you Muslim?

My dad was raised Catholic and I was raised more agnostic.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-16 10:17 PM

I pity them. They're doomed either way as are their families.

#19 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-03-17 12:27 AM

#17 | Posted by ClownShack

In my personal and professional dealings, pretty much all my interactions with Iranians, other than the coke-head SAVAK-friendly types I ran across in college in the '70s, have been better than my interactions with Arabs. More honest, honorable.

Just imagine the relations we could have had but for the oil companies and Israelis since the '50s.

#20 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-17 01:07 PM

I have the same experience. I knew a Zoroastrian family many years ago who were from Iran. Great People.

Some of the finest I've ever known actually.

I'm sorry the Iranian Regime is Repressive.

The Iranians are clearly a Great people.

Israel and the US are committing great crimes.

#21 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-17 06:11 PM

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