Taremi is coming under fire from several Iranians on social media after posting a photo album of the top preselection stars in relaxed poses and smiling broadly. An active reaction from many Iranians on Twitter was not expected, in a cry of indignation at the alleged indifference of athletes to the suffering of the population on the streets of Tehran and other cities of Iran.
The attacks found there are brutal and increasingly prove the country’s divisions regarding the team’s success in Qatar, with many even signing a petition to remove Iran from the competition, including former stars such as Ali Daei and Ali Karimi. . Moreover, the preparation of Carlos Queiroz’s set was not easy, and disputes arose every day.
Taremi and Azmoun, who even sketched out a critical reaction to the events that took place in Tehran over the past two months, after the murder of Mahsa Amini, tortured by the police, participated in this album – in the same Jahanbakhsh and Ansarifad – where they aimed to symbolize a lighter climate, but they did not escaped sharp reprimands and even furious misunderstandings from Iranians, driven to despair by daily deaths, in the face of political repression of civil protests.
