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Shock claims over how Iran players were treated in Los Angeles

Members of Iran’s World Cup team have alleged that they were kicked out of the “oppressive” U.S. right after their first World Cup game Monday evening.

“They didn’t even give us time to recover,” coach Amir Ghalenoei said through an interpreter, according to the Associated Press. “After the game today, they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately.’”

“It’s very important for us to have time for recovery. We are asked to get on a plane and return to our camp in Tijuana, and we are really troubled by that,” he added.

Mehdi Taremi, the captain of the team, also chimed in on the abrupt exit requirement.

“We have to leave Los Angeles right now, and it’s not good for us,” he said roughly an hour after their first World Cup match. “I think FIFA has to help us more than this. … Everything is like a disaster, actually, for us.”

He added that they’d suffered five hours of travel and security checks during their original trip on Sunday from Tijuana to Los Angeles.

“We don’t know why they are returning us, to be honest,” Ghalenoei continued. “I think it’s very strange. It seems like others are doing the planning for us. The decision-making for us is being made elsewhere.”

“We were supposed to come two nights before the game, and we were supposed to stay tonight to recover and return tomorrow at lunchtime. We have no idea why. I think our team is perhaps the most oppressed in the World Cup,” he added.

Both Taremi and Ghalenoei also complained about how many vital team staff members weren’t even able to come along because their visas were denied.

According to Ghalenoei, the team’s players developed cramps because of a lack of preparation time caused by all the bureaucratic hurdles they had to endure.

“Before the game, I said we haven’t had time to adjust because of the travel,” he explained. “Many of our players, they had cramps, and that’s why we had to substitute them. So it wasn’t for technical reasons that we made substitutions. It was because of the injury and because of the cramp.”

“They will be examined by our technical staff, but the fact that they delayed our arrivals and are forcing us to go back early without time for recovery, they are making the situation more difficult,” he added.

Video footage circulating on the Internet shows the moment that FIFA President Gianni Infantino visited the Iranian team in their dressing room to comfort the team and offer them support.

“You showed to your families, friends, to your people, to the world, that you’re in the World Cup, that you perform, and you have two more games to go,” he told the team. “In these two games, you will make again everyone in the world proud of what you do. Thank you for being here.”

“It is also a big, big emotion. I know what you go through, I understand, but you are stronger than everything. You send a strong message to the entire world. Like tonight, you united the whole stadium here, you united the whole stadium behind you, behind Team Melli. You are sending such a strong message to the world,” he added.

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All this comes amid the reaching of a temporary memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran that’s to be formally signed on Friday. It’ll trigger a new 60-day ceasefire during which both sides will continue to negotiate toward a wider, far-reaching nuclear deal.

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