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I know that but the thing is most people considered it Saddam's fault. not Iraq in general. Saddam also killed thousands of Iraqi people. he used chemical bombs to kill his own people (and Iranians of course) he was a monster that hurt everybody. now he is gone, at least I can't feel enmity from this side. but from Iraqi side ? I don't know that. Iran is still the same. and as I said because of the current situation (with Iran meddling in Iraq's business and also other reasons) Iran isn't the most popular country there, specially in that specific town. I had absolutely no problem playing in Baghdad or Arbil or Karbala. but if FIFA thinks Basra is safe, so be it. but it will be a hostile environment for sure like it was today in Bahrain. I just hope after today our players learn how to deal with it, that's part of the game.

no. I don't think the casualty was that high in Iraq-Kuwait war. which was very quick. I'm talking about 8 years of war between Iran and Iraq with almost a million people losing their lives (for no reason).

I think he gets the job because he simply accepts all the conditions as long as he gets paid. Queiroz was a tough man who never lost an inch in his wars ! when he wanted something he would get it anyhow. no matter who he had to fight for that, he was ready to take it on the sport minister or anybody else in the country. for example Iran didn't use FIFA dates with Wilmots because our federation didn't want to interrupt our very very very prestigious stupid league. something like that was impossible with Queiroz. but it seems Wilmots has no problem with everything. and beside that Iran has serious problems in "paying foreign coaches" because of the sanctions transferring money in and out of Iran is simply impossible. another reason for other coaches to turn down the job.

This Shia-Sunni thing is mostly made by western media. I never fell such enmity at all just because of that. and beside that the majority of people in Iraq are Shia. the problem is that city of Basra was invaded by Iran not long ago. it's like Iraq playing in Khorramshahr, or Ghasre-Shirin or Sardasht. (where Saddam's army invaded and killed hundreds of people) of course people won't forget these things easily. of course after something like 30 years, there is no hatred in general , no at all . something like a million Iranians are already in Iraq for a religious thing these days but people who live in those cities directly involved in the war and lost their family still very well remember that. specially nowadays Iran isn't that popular in Iraq because of meddling in their local businesses.

Shocking defeat in Bahrain and our World Cup chance is already in jeopardy ! Bahrain was almost the worst place in the earth for Iran to play a football match, we never beat them away but still a defeat was unexpected. they got a penalty by our stupid mistake and since then they played "Bahrainian style" which means grass-rolling time wasting. dirty play . I’m very worried about our next crucial game in Basra against Iraq next month. it will be in a very hostile environment. actually I'm also worried about the safety of our players, if we lose we are out. and it seems our "nice" coach doesn't know how to deal with small dirty Asian teams. I already miss Queiroz.

I think they changed the rule about how to award points finishing 9th won't be a disaster like it was 4 years ago, we will have 2 pts more than France and Iran can't go lower than 9th. so 8th place in the ranking is 100% guaranteed for Iran. (we can be 7th among the qualified teams if Canada fails to qualify, still Iran goes to Group A, no need to say if Iran qualifies which is a big if considering the current level) check this. I assume you guys you have to re calculate things if you counted everything based on the previous system http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/Rankings.asp

I can bet my everything that's not going to happen. this Iran can't beat anybody , they just want to finish the tournament and go to their clubs. Iran only won few matches when they played with reserved players. do we already know the Olympic groups ? still the serpantine system like this ? Group A) H, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 Group B) 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 I assume 11 will be CHI/VEN so far I can say the only sure thing is BRA=1, USA=2, POL=3 I think everybody wants Group A, right ? Iran (if qualifies) will be in Group A for sure.

Watched the beach wrestling finals. surprisingly I saw lots of familiar names. Dato Marsagashvili !!! and our Olympic medalist failed to win the gold here.lost it to Inam of Pakistan. this guy Inam wins medals in beach wrestling but he is VERY weak in normal wrestling. which is a bit weird. the difference between wrestling on the mat and beach isn't that big. to be world champion in one and very weak in another . despite beach wrestling being active in Iran, we have just one wrestler here (apparently through Wild Card) because Iran didn't participate in any of those "World Series" to qualify. we weren't supposed to even participate in this WBG, that only changed when USA dropped hosting the event. that guy and our beach soccer team are the only events left for Iran.

They failed to qualify for the World Cup (after winning the bronze last time) so this is their only chance to salvage some pride. they still have to beat Paraguay to advance. no easy at all. and about the website. that's OK. not great but I had seen worst. I hope they publish results book at the end of the competition

You almost jinxed them what a crazy match, the best beach soccer match I ever seen.

medal for Iran in Kata !! I know this is not the highest level of the competition but still there are lots of big names in this competition. even though based on the scores, it seems Fatemeh Sadeghi was a bit lucky but still good for her. maybe one day this event becomes prestigious and she can say I'm the first ever medalist for Iran in the World Beach Games history

no I was looking at the semifinals (instead of the finals) for women's result. just fixed it but you were fast to catch my mistake you said "don't trust those Facebook pages" I also have to add "don't trust your national federations" I heard lots of nonsense and false news before

Per my understanding the following qualified LM2x: LW2x: M1x: W1x:

then only LM2x qualifies for Algeria. Rules: an NOC may qualify a maximum of one (1) boat. If two (2) boats from an NOC meet the qualification criteria at a Continental Qualification Regatta, then it is the highest-ranking boat that qualifies.

it's not really necessarily about religion. if you ask what's it about ? I don't know. there are some stupid rules here nobody knows why.

same as you. I only have the official result books

it seems Mongolia is outsmarting Iran. and don't forget Chinese Taipei. they also scored 370,000 in one night but I wonder if these events are real ?! I mean who is going to observe local events ?! national federations right ? can't they just fill some forms and put some random results ?! even though that's not much different than having "fake events"

technically it wasn't the first time. it happened before with limited number and under special situations. but yes that, (first time in football though)

That was a dive. it was justice missing that penalty today we had seed 1 hosting seed 5 in each group. we had lots of "interesting" results because of that 14-0 is the worst result of Cambodia history and 3rd best result of Iran. also the 3rd time in history Iran scoring double digit. but this match was special for another reason, (anybody who doesn't know just google Iran Cambodia) probably that was the reason our players were motivated till the last minute and scored as many goal as possible.

yes and considering the points gap, I don't think women's team can qualify but you never know. ranking changes in a day . I just found the ranking for only 4 days ago and you can see MASSIVE change in number of points for all countries in race. (RUS and CHN are guaranteed) it seems Iran is not the only one "cheating" ! this is the worst qualification format ever. Comparing points from 5 November and 9 November 12,102,587 ==> 12,193,547 11,198,879 ==> 11,356,804 8,658,440 ==> 8,894,875 8,375,136 ==> 8,678,836 6,403,888 ==> 7,041,633 5,976,591 ==> 6,764,738 5,970,420 ==> 6,504,495

I don't think Japan can pick. the best ranked Japanese team qualifies. right now men's team is 8th. women's team is 11th. so it goes to the men's team at least for now.

The last time I checked the ranking couple days ago Iran had something like 6500. now it's 6760. with this rate they will catch Mongolia ! but this is not something to be proud of . this is cheating IMO Iran women's team is TOOOO weak to be 6th in the world. they are just playing smart and having some local events just to collect more points. this is the only quota (in all sports) I hope Iran doesn't win because they simply don't deserve it.

well it seems Keikha had a fall from the Pommel Horse poor guy trained months only for this 1 minute of performance. probably too much stress to handle. I assume his Olympic chance is pretty much gone, right ? he is 4th in World Cup Series Ranking and the Taiwanese guy will qualify with his team here but then China and Japan can qualify individual athletes (alongside with their team) there is no way Keikha can improve his ranking. at best he can keep his place which won't be enough I think our other athlete here Ahmad-Kohani had a good performance (relatively good. considering his level) 9th place for now in Rings. a top 20 finish will be good for him. btw if Milad Karimi qualifies for Kazakhstan, at least there will be an Iranian in Olympic gymnastics

It was probably the best K1 PL event for Iran so far. 3 gold medals and topping the medal table. I think if the qualification was today Iran could qualify 5 which is great. a year ago I was expecting 2 or max 3. for the women's events, a year ago at max I was hoping Abbasali to qualify but right now we have 4 in top 10 and 2 of them in the qualification zone. they are doing even better than the men's team. Bahmanyar won her 2nd K1 PL gold in a row , she is now 2nd in her 50kg weight. Khaksar at 55kg is also 3rd but she is something like 1000pts behind the top 2. Rozi Alipour was the biggest surprise of the competition. finally she managed to win a gold somewhere I think she will be 5th in new ranking. the 4th placed Turkish girl is the current Euro Champion and she will lose LOTS of points if she doesn't defend her title. even 5th place is good enough to win the Asian quota. in short I think Iran is in a very good situation to win at least 4 quotas. (3 is almost guaranteed) only Abbasali is seriously in danger.

Iran played first 2 matches with A team and lost both of them to Russia B and Egypt then played Canada and Australia with reserve players and won both of them therefore reserve team >>> A team