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Monday, March 9, 2026
Trump urges Australia to grant asylum to Iranian women’s soccer team
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US President Donald Trump urges Australia to grant asylum to the visiting Iranian women’s soccer team, after players refused to sing the national anthem while playing there.
“Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Woman’s Soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed,” Trump says in a post on his Truth Social network.
“Don’t do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give ASYLUM. The US will take them if you won’t,” adds Trump, referring to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
3 days ago, Iran’s Women’s Soccer Team protested the Islamic Regime by refusing to sing the national anthem.
2 days ago, Iranian state media branded the women “wartime traitors.”
Today, the women were desperately begging for help from inside the team bus. They are being… pic.twitter.com/bZgZ5XGo5B
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