Several members of group of Iran women's soccer team that defected to Australia last week are returning to Iran after their families disappeared. The New York Post reported:
Three of the six Iranian women’s soccer players who accepted asylum in Australia are returning to Iran, according to Tina Kordrostami, a councilor for the Australian City of Ryde. Kordrostami told Fox News Channel’s “Fox Report With Jon Scott” Saturday that the three players are returning, calling it an “upsetting update,” but she could not discuss exact reasons why. “They are heavily intimidated and being communicated to directly by the regime,” Kordrostami said. When asked if the players are being threatened, Kordrostami said, “I don’t think that, I know that. “I know families have even been detained. I know family members are missing. One thing I really would like for people in the West to understand is that Iranians within the country have in many ways given up on the West, and they are only relying on one another to survive this regime. “So, when we do offer them a way out, it’s not often that easy for them to understand that it is in fact a way out. They are more so used to relying on one another and this is survival for them.” Kordrostami added that the women who return face potential severe consequences. “We are very worried about them. We know for a fact that they will not be safe. I’ve mentioned this before. When you do break a contract as an athlete in Iran, you can face the death penalty. Rest of article.
Kingfish note: Those poor souls. Who knows what hell awaits them in Iran. Perhaps the Iranians and Chinese can swap notes on how to treat dissidents. A regime that killed nearly 40,000 of its own people last night because they dared protest in the streets. Read this Iran International report on what happened to two nurses who dared to treat those wounded in the protests:
Two nurses working in a Tehran hospital who treated wounded protesters during the nationwide uprising in January were tortured and repeatedly gang raped by security agents while in custody, people familiar with the matter told Iran International.
The sources, based in Tehran, requested anonymity for fear of retribution.
The nurses were among medical staff at Tehran’s Rajaei Cardiovascular, Medical and Research Center who treated people injured during the massive protests that erupted in late December and spread into early January, drawing millions into the streets and prompting a crackdown that led to mass arrests and at least 36,500 deaths.
Sexual torture and severe injuries
One of the nurses, a 33-year-old woman, was repeatedly abused and raped during detention, according to informed sources who spoke with Iran International.
Sources said agents subjected her to various forms of sexual torture.
In addition to assaulting her with their fingers, agents raped her in groups of two or three over consecutive days.
They also raped her by inserting a foreign object into her anus, causing severe bleeding, the sources said.
In another form of torture, agents took her along with dozens of other detained women to an elevated place and then pushed them all into a small pit-like space, the sources said.
The injuries inflicted on the nurse were so severe that doctors had to remove part of her intestine, and she now lives with a colostomy bag, one source said.
Her uterus also suffered severe tearing and she has so far undergone two surgeries. Doctors may ultimately be forced to remove her uterus completely, the source added.
Before she was transferred to the operating room, the nurse repeatedly asked doctors not to allow her to survive and said that if she came out of surgery alive, she would take her own life, the source said....
The hospital, located in the Vali-Asr area of Tehran, faced a wave of wounded people late on the evening of Jan. 8.
From around 9 p.m. onward, large numbers of individuals injured by live ammunition were transferred to the hospital.
Agents involved in the crackdown on protesters told hospital staff not to provide medical treatment to the wounded, according to sources.
Among the 27 personnel and nurses present in the ward that night, 14 refused the order and attempted to treat the injured.
Sources said two male nurses among them were arrested after protesting the situation and expressing sympathy with the wounded.... Article
By the way, where is Megan Rapinoe in all this? The "activist" who looks for every chance to criticize America somehow is silent where her fellow soccer players are concerned.
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Bringing the truth to the light…
Unfortunately it is obvious that the regime would at a minimum torture their families, just like the N. Koreans and China do.
And all my liberal and democrat friends on social media will glance over this and call Trump's war in Iran a distraction from the Epstein files. Standing with Iran is not in line with women's rights they all talk so much about. The silence is deafening just because they don't like the current president.
TDS has spread more than covid.
During WWII it took what could be described as total war…..with hundreds of thousands of Japanese deaths via firebombing then another 200,000 or so deaths via the atomic bombs…..before Japan’s evil Emperor finally surrendered.
We need to continue killing the Twelver Shi’a Muslims that have been terrorizing Iranians since the Democrat Jimmy Carter days almost 50 years ago. It is the ONLY thing they will understand.
Well...since we know China and North Korea have brutal regimes, why aren't we changing theirs and all the others in the world?
I suspect Afghanistan is again a horrible place for women. We might benefit from the historical fact that misogyny combined with religion can become extremely brutal for women.
more Mickey Mouse history.
Japan finally surrendered to us when the Soviets began building up to invade Hokkaido. The Emperor found surrendering to capitalists to be far more preferable to a nation that killed their Czar and his children.
It’s all true. We know it’s true because it’s coming from the “intelligence” community.
9:41 am we did that already. That's how those Americans became hostages and we tried to free them and failed, remember? Afghanistan was a double whammy as Russia had tried first to free Afghanistan from a brutal religious regime and introduce communism. These neanderthal males don't want women to have any power.
Proof that half their population are HARDLINERS. All the bombing in the world will not change this backwards society. And their youth are looking like they may be to soft ......to liberal to at least try and overthrow their leadership. Withdraw or turn it all to glass ! we are already tired of 3.59 fuel and need to win in 2028.
March 17, 2026 at 9:48 AM; maybe we aren't bombing china and north korea, despite all their human rights violations, because they have nuclear weapons. which is, again, a major reason why we are bombing iran now.
They did. And the Mullahs killed 36,000 of them in two days. They have no weapons or means of fighting back other than marching.
Like was done in Latin America and Afghanistan, the CIA needs to arm them.
I did not watch the Liberal circle-jerk called The Oscars.
Can anyone confirm if Michael B Jordan spoke out about the plight of these brave soccer gals? Did Sean Penn demand justice for them?
I am not cheering. But @KF be honest. The IRGC correctly knew that mossad has infiltrated their government. Mossad then tried their very best to foment a color revolution. Unforunately for Mossad and their would-be insurgency, it failed. They took the risk and exposed themselves and paid the price. Unfortunately, the same powers convinced this soccer team they could protect them and their families if they betrayed their country. They unfortunately will pay the price as well. It is a sad situation we wouldn’t be in if Trunp had the courage to say no to Netanyahu like the rest of the world has. But he most likely cant say no to him.
We arent’t bombing China or North Korea because the only time the PLA directly met the United States on the battlefield was in North Korea and they pushed us so hard and so fast that we signed an armistice with them at the 38th Parallel.
So, 'The East' is depending on 'The West' to be their Mighty Mouse and rush in and save the day, every day in every way.
You can bet your ass neither these three nor their families will survive.
"since we know China and North Korea have brutal regimes, why aren't we changing theirs and all the others in the world?"
The Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world. That is the difference.
Do you really want suicide bombers to have a nuclear weapon?
Libs in America will turn a blind eye to this heinous conduct.
Libsin America will turn a blind eye to this heinous conduct
"What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!" Nope, didn't hear that.
In a massive break from President Trump and MAGA, Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), announced his immediate resignation on Tuesday, citing irreconcilable opposition to the ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran.
Kent declared he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” stating unequivocally that Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation” and that the conflict was initiated “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
In other news, Trump now says he doesn’t need NATO’s help to reopen the Straight of Hormuz.
However, US Navy vessels remail a safe distance from the Straight, and show no signs of attempting to traverse it.
10;44. Thank God Trump invaded Iran then. On to Jina
War in the East is like striking oil for the DC suits and ties. They feed us more bs justifications, like "spreading freedom" or "women's rights" as brown people on the other side of the planet blow up and explode, courtesy of our tax-payer-funded ordinance... Different kind of greed right there!
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