{"id":1754293,"date":"2022-11-28T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754293"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:08:01","slug":"watch-iranian-journalist-tries-to-race-bait-u-s-soccer-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-iranian-journalist-tries-to-race-bait-u-s-soccer-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Iranian Journalist Tries To Race-Bait U.S. Soccer Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-iranian-journalist-tries-to-race-bait-u-s-soccer-captain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An Iranian reporter attempted to bait U.S. men\u2019s soccer team captain Tyler Adams \u2014 during a pre-game press conference on Monday in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/singer-dua-lipa-says-shes-not-performing-at-world-cup-in-qatar-as-she-calls-out-countrys-human-rights-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qatar<\/a> \u2014 into saying something derogatory about race relations in his home country.<\/p>\n<p>Scolding Adams for mispronouncing \u201cIran,\u201d the reporter then asked whether the team captain \u2014 as a biracial man \u2014 was comfortable representing the United States when racial discrimination was still a thing that was happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f La rueda de prensa m\u00e1s inc\u00f3moda de lo que llevamos de Mundial. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Tyler Adams contest\u00f3 una de las preguntas a un periodista iran\u00ed sobre el racismo en Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n<p>\u2795\u2139\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8PDChaLQkA\">https:\/\/t.co\/8PDChaLQkA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kQcuHaacgh\">pic.twitter.com\/kQcuHaacgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Relevo (@relevo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/relevo\/status\/1597255492170289154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say you support the Iranian people, but you\u2019re pronouncing our country\u2019s name wrong. Please, once and for all, let\u2019s get this clear,\u201d the reporter began. \u201cAre you okay to be representing a country that has so much discrimination against Black people in its own borders? And we saw the Black Lives Matter movement over the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy apologies on the mispronunciation of your country,\u201d Adams replied, adding, \u201cThere\u2019s discrimination everywhere you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams went on to praise the United States for continuing to make progress, saying, \u201cOne thing that I\u2019ve learned, especially from living abroad in the past years and having to fit in different cultures, is that in the US, we\u2019re continuing to make progress every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in a white family, with obviously an African-American heritage and background as well. I had a little bit of a different cultures, and I was very easily able to assimilate in different cultures, so not everyone has that ease and the ability to do that,\u201d Adams said, before thanking the reporter for helping to educate him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it takes longest to understand and through education, I think, is super important. Like, you just educated me now on the pronunciation of your country. It\u2019s a process. I think as long as you see progress, that\u2019s the important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the reporter asserted that Adams \u201csupported\u201d the Iranian people, he was apparently referencing The United States Soccer Federation\u2019s earlier move to show support for Iranian women.<\/p>\n<p>The federation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/27\/football\/iran-us-flag-protesters-klinsmann-2022-world-cup-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared a graphic<\/a> laying out the Group B standings that included the Iranian flag \u2014edited to show only the colors and not the emblem of the Islamic Republic. According to U.S. Soccer, the intent was to post the graphic as a show of \u201csupport for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the graphic was posted, however, Iranian state media called for the United States to be kicked out of the ongoing competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy posting a distorted image of the flag of the Islamic Republic of #Iran on its official account, the #US football team breached the @FIFAcom charter, for which a 10-game suspension is the appropriate penalty. Team #USA should be kicked out of the #WorldCup2022,\u201d Tasnim news agency tweeted on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By posting a distorted image of the flag of the Islamic Republic of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> on its official account, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#US<\/a> football team breached the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIFAcom<\/a> charter, for which a 10-game suspension is the appropriate penalty. <br \/>Team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USA?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USA<\/a> should be kicked out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldCup2022?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldCup2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c8I4i4z3Tv\">pic.twitter.com\/c8I4i4z3Tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tasnim News Agency (@Tasnimnews_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tasnimnews_EN\/status\/1596808910572519424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter apologized, saying that no one on the team had any idea that the federation planned to do that. \u201cThe staff, the players, we had no idea \u2026 Our focus is on this match and I don\u2019t want to sound aloof or not caring by saying that,\u201d Berhalter said. \u201cOf course are thoughts are with the Iranian people, the whole country, the whole team, everyone. But our focus is on this match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian reporter attempted to bait U.S. men\u2019s soccer team captain Tyler Adams \u2014 during a pre-game press conference on Monday in Qatar \u2014 into saying something derogatory about race relations in his home country. Scolding Adams for mispronouncing \u201cIran,\u201d the reporter then asked whether the team captain \u2014 as a biracial man \u2014 was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1754296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}