Mehdi Taremi: I am neither political nor do I want to answer your questions.
In an interview with a FIFA reporter, Mehdi Taremi said, ‘I am neither political nor do I want to answer your questions. I am here at the World Cup to play football and enjoy football. I don’t understand why you keep asking these questions and not about the Ukraine war.’
He, who was avoiding answering questions about the situation in Iran and the people’s revolutionary movement in any way, responded to the reporter who said, ‘You are Iranian, and I am only asking about your feelings regarding your country’s situation and the fact that you are now at the World Cup,’ by saying, ‘I am just a football player and politics has nothing to do with me. I don’t know what you are after.’