Earlier this month, the world was imploring Australia to protect members of the Iranian women's soccer team, after the women faced threats for refusing to sing Iran's national anthem during the Asian Cup, which was held in Australia. President Trump even offered asylum if Australia didn't.
Seven of the women's soccer players decided to seek asylum, something that made their Islamic handlers very angry. But now it seems some of those women are withdrawing their asylum claims because the Iranian regime has targeted their families.
This includes 34-year-old captain Zahra Ghanbari, because her family is now missing in Iran.
Captain of Iranian women's soccer team is latest to withdraw asylum bid: 'Family members are missing' https://t.co/2rLrVLkT3k pic.twitter.com/QqRaHOkDVQ
— New York Post (@nypost) March 15, 2026
The captain of Iran’s women’s soccer team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia, making her the latest member to do so as fears grow that the players’ families are in danger if they don’t return home.
Zahra Ghanbari, 34, is “returning to the embrace of the homeland” after withdrawing her asylum bid Sunday, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported.
Shiva Amini, an exiled Iranian former soccer player, claimed the players chose to go home following “intense and systemic pressure on the players’ families” from Iran’s Football Federation.
“Several of the players decided to go back because the threats against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless,” she wrote on X on Sunday.
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Where are the feminists? That sound you hear is crickets.
BREAKING: The captain of Iran’s women’s soccer team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia after her family went missing.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 15, 2026
UN Women has not said a word. pic.twitter.com/3M6mmiVYkL
They're also silent. And it's deafening.
— Samuel Culper 722 (@politiwars) March 15, 2026
All of these people are fine with how women are treated in Iran.
This is a hostage taking situation. The Islamic regime has taken their families hostage and is forcing them to return. Only to arrest them, torture and gang rape them and then kill them! 😔https://t.co/AK5NUEijms
— Shiva (@2khtareKoorosh) March 15, 2026
We can only imagine the horrors these women and their families will face.
Unconscionable https://t.co/R1E9rAwVqe
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) March 15, 2026
All of the people who are okay with this will also tell you how Republicans harm women.
Her family members went missing after she requested asylum. The Iranian Regime deserves every bomb that gets dropped on them. https://t.co/HxIXjLiSuy
— Saxon African (@Saxon_African) March 15, 2026
Yes, they do.
Where is the UN? These women are being targeted because they are women saying no to a brutal Islamic regime. Stop playing games and help them. https://t.co/CGCWHSd7mo
— Kirralie Smith (@KirralieS) March 15, 2026
Here's the dirty little not-so-secret we all must realize: the U.N. and the Left are fine with how Iranian women are treated. Because they are willing and eager to capitulate to Islam. That means they will allow Islam to do whatever it wants to women in Iran, the U.K., the U.S., and anywhere else.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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