Italy’s repechage to World Cup, from Donald Trump a scary new warning to'Iran

The current geopolitical situation and the ever-increasing tension between Washington and Tehran are putting Iran’s participation in the upcoming World Cup to be held between Canada, Mexico and the United States in serious doubt.

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to send yet another warning to Iran: “The storm is coming. Nothing can stop what is coming,” he wrote on social Truth. In response, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Iranian state TV counterattacked, “The only place for the U.S. in the Persian Gulf is at the bottom of the sea.”

At the upcoming FIFA Congress in Vancouver, just weeks before the World Cup kicks off, Iran will not be there. The Tehran Federation said that the delegation, which included the president and former member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Mehdi Taj, was turned away at Toronto Pearson Airport after being subjected to what was called “unacceptable behavior by immigration officials.”

In Italy, there is a lot of discussion about possible repechage, and not everyone is in favor of seeing the Azzurri at the rainbow competition. Among them is the well-known journalist Mauro Mazza, who at the microphones of TG4 sentenced, “I would definitely say no, thank you, for three quick considerations. The first is that we were deservedly eliminated because we played bad matches, then to be readmitted in this way would smack of ‘botched Italian style’: let’s have others do these things. The third reason is that Italian soccer needs to start from scratch, holy words from CONI President Luciano Buonfiglio.”