A Fox News report on Iranian female soccer players escaping to Australia included crazy footage of the moment their “handlers” found out.
Following the brave and risky decision not to sing their country’s national anthem at the Women’s Asian Cup on the Gold Coast, some of the Iranian women’s soccer team members have no desire to go back home. Fox News’s Fox & Friends reported on the women who chose to seek asylum in Australia, as well as video caught by an activist that purports to show the moment the women’s handlers scramble after getting the news that some of them have escaped.
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“Fox News has obtained new video capturing the moment after the Iranian women’s soccer team staff, security and handlers realized five of their players had just escaped their hotel for asylum in Australia. The video was shot by an activist confronting a man they believe to be affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),” reported Bryan Llenas.
“This is Australia motherf**ker!” the activist can be heard yelling from behind the camera was several men and women scurry down a flight of stairs, reportedly in an attempt to reach the garage floor. “Yeah IRGC… you better run!”
“Stop! Stop! Stop!” one of the men yelled as he lifted his hand in a vague attempt to block the camera.
“These Iranian handlers were running in the stairwell of the hotel to try to get to the parking garage, but the door was locked,” Llenas explained, providing more context for the video. “Australian federal police removed the five players to a safe location where they were granted humanitarian visas. A sixth player and a team staffer also decided to stay in Australia, but one of those women spoke to her teammates and decided to return home instead. The rest of the team arrived in Malaysia as they make their way back to Iran. Australian politician and Iranian activist Tina Kordrostami, who led the asylum push, tells Fox the players were coerced to go back to Iran, their phones tapped, and at least one player had their family detained in Iran.
“These women got back on the plane for their family. They know their family is at risk. They know that they are not safe. They also know that they’re going to potentially lose any notion of a future in football. They probably will be facing severe persecution as well,” Kordrostami said.
“Iranian state media called these women war traitors for not saluting and singing the Iranian national anthem at their first Asian cup soccer game last Monday in protest against the regime. Kordrostami says too many athletes around the world are not recognizing their bravery,” Llenas said.
“A lot of women in the West, as well. they are choosing to remain silent on Iran, the women in Iran. For a lot of them, it’s about not wanting to be Islamophobic even though women in Iran have said time and time again it’s not about religion, it’s about coercion, it’s about being forced,” Kordrostami pointed out.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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