Shakhtar is fed up: ask FIFA to exclude Iran from the World Cup and replace it with Ukraine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Iran, a team coached by the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, qualified for the World Cup for the sixth time in its history by defeating Iraq last January.
36% : The Iranian authorities categorically deny supplying weapons to both sides in the conflict, which has not prevented the West from already adopting sanctions against Tehran.
34% : The director general of Shakhtar Donetsk, Serhiy Palkin, asked FIFA on Monday to exclude Iran from the World Cup in Qatar, due to the use of Iranian suicide drones against the Ukrainian civilian population, and its replacement by the Ukrainian team.
33% : The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has called on President Volodymyr Zelensky to sever diplomatic relations with Iran due to Russia's massive attacks with Iranian kamikaze drones on Ukrainian cities, especially civilian infrastructure.

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