It removed the word “Allah”… America is manipulating the Iranian flag before the World Cup match – Nile News Gate

The US national football team’s account on Twitter sparked a state of controversy after it made several modifications to the Iranian national flag before facing the two teams in the third and final round of the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar.

The official account of the American team published a picture of its group arrangement, and removed religious slogans from the Iranian flag, “God is in the middle, and God is great on the lines.”

The Iranian national team is awaiting a decisive confrontation against its counterpart, the American national team, in the match that brings them together in the third round of Group Two of the Qatar World Cup 2022, in a match bearing the slogan “The winner is born … and the loser is lost”, especially since the winner will qualify for the second round while the loser will bid farewell to the World Cup competitions .

Ranking of Iran and America group
England leads the second group standings with 4 points from winning one match and drawing in another, while Iran comes in second place with 3 points, then America with two points, and finally Wales with one point.

Iran national team
Apart from the fact that the match is decisive in the career of the two teams in the World Cup, there is another factor that increases its ignition, which is the political differences between the two countries, as sports confrontations between Iran and America are always covered in the guise of politics, especially since Tehran and Washington severed diplomatic relations between them since 1980, after A year of the Islamic revolution led by Khomeini.

There have been no diplomatic relations between Iran and America for more than 40 years, but football may fix what sport spoiled, especially since the International Football Association succeeded in praising referees from the American and Iranian football federations together in managing the Colombia-Greece match in Group C of the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil.

Historic victory for Iran
The two teams had previously met in the 1998 World Cup, which was held in France, in Group F competitions, and Iran achieved a historic victory 2-1 at that time, which was its first victory in the finals, as Hamid Estili and Mahdi Mahdavikia scored for Iran.