“In Iran, no one truly cares about football now, just as no one seems to care about the hardship and difficult living conditions of the Iranian people,” says citizen in Tehran.

Iran national players Saeid Ezatolahi and Mohammad Ghorbani talk about how war is overshadowing a World Cup dream.

Mohammad Dadkan, the former president of the Football Federation of Iran, said something in an interview with the Rouydad24 website that ...