Ukrainian club urges FIFA to remove Iran from World Cup

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Iran plays in the second game of the World Cup, on Nov. 21 against England, and then faces Wales and the United States in Group B. Wales qualified by beating Ukraine in the playoffs in June in a game that was delayed from March by the war.
42% : Soccer's world body does not typically suspend member federations because of military decisions by a national government, though Yugoslavia was barred from trying to qualify for the 1994 World Cup after United Nations sanctions were imposed during the war in the Balkans.
39% : Russia and Iran have both denied that the drones used were Iranian-built.
34% : GENEVA -- Ukraine's top soccer club on Monday urged FIFA to remove Iran from the World Cup because of the country's alleged military support to the Russian invasion.
28% : Shakhtar Donetsk chief executive Sergei Palkin accused Iran of "direct participation in terrorist attacks on Ukrainians," suggesting his own country's team should play in Qatar instead as a replacement.

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