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Trump asks Australia to grant asylum to Iranian female footballers

US President Donald Trump called on the Australian government to grant asylum to the Iranian women's football team, warning they could be killed in their home country. He also offered the US to host the athletes if Australia refuses.


Trump asks Australia to grant asylum to Iranian female footballers

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, asked the Australian government this Monday to grant asylum to the Iranian women's football team, which is playing the Asian Cup in the Australian country, and said that Washington will receive the athletes if Sydney does not agree to shelter them. "Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iranian women's national football team to be forced to return to Iran, where they will most likely be killed," Trump said. "We will take them if you don't," he added. Photo: EFE. The news was first published in La Verdad Panamá. "Don't do it, Mr. Prime Minister, grant them ASYLUM," Trump said in a message on Truth Social addressed to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The head of state stated in the same post that the United States...

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