Shakhtar chief calls on Iran to be booted out of the World Cup

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Sergei Palkin wants Iran - who will play England, Wales and the United States - to be kicked outIran qualified for the tournament in Qatar by finishing top of their Asian qualifying group'The vacant place should be taken by the national team of Ukraine, which proved that it is worthy of participation in the Mundial.'With unequal conditions with other national teams during the play-offs, they played with their heart.
45% : A ball of smoke and flames rises over the streets of Kyiv as the city is bombarded by a swarm of Iranian-made kamikaze drones on MondayOne of the drones soars towards civilian tower blocks in the centre of Kiev during the attackPolice officers try to shoot down a suicide drone attacking the Ukrainian capital of KyivIran topped their qualifying group in Asia to book their place in Qatar, finishing ahead of South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
41% : Drone attack have caused devastation in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv in recent daysUkraine says that Iran has been supplying Russian forces with the unmanned drones
40% : President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed seven such drones had been shot down, while the United States said Iran has deployed military experts in Russian-occupied Crimea.
39% :'Women have been consistently denied access to stadiums across the country and systematically excluded from the football ecosystem in Iran, which sharply contrasts with FIFA's values and statutes,' it reads.
35% : Shakhtar Donetsk's CEO Sergei Palkin wants Ukraine to replace Iran at the World Cup amid reports Tehran has supplied Russia with drones to aid their invasion.
35% : It says that because women have been banned from football games in Iran, the nation's FA have breached Article 19 of FIFA laws.
34% : The chief executive of Shakhtar Donetsk has called for Ukraine to replace Iran at the World Cup'Almost 250 such drones have already attacked peaceful cities of Ukraine.
34% : It comes after a formal legal challenge was made to FIFA to throw Iran out of the World Cup, which gets underway on November 20.
23% :Iran has pleaded its 'neutrality' in the conflict but Ukraine has already downgraded diplomatic ties with Tehran and now the chief of one of its leading football teams has demanded further punishment.

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