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DARK SECRETS: World cup 2022 a brief history of us iran relations | Vintage Vibes

Iran World Cup Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Tehran Barack Obama Donald Trump George W Bush Al Jazeera CIA Hassan Rouhani

The United States and Iran football teams pose for a photo before their game in the 1998 World Cup in France [File: Darren Walsh/Action Images]

Washington, DC – An Arabic saying goes, “Politics has never touched anything that it did not spoil.”

But it has been nearly impossible to keep politics out of football ahead of a critical showdown between Iran and the United States at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday.

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