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 know why you keep asking these questions and not asking about the Ukraine war.’
He, who avoided answering questions about the situation in Iran and the revolutionary uprising of the people in any way, responded to the reporter who said, ‘You are Iranian and I am now asking as a football player only about your feelings regarding the situation in your country 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.’