On Saturday, November 14, without mentioning the adventures of the Islamic Republic and the escalation of tensions with the US and the countries of the region, the Atmad newspaper, owned by the head of the Parshkian government's Information Council, criticized the decision of the Football Association for the national team's ground trip to Basra after the cancellation of the direct flight from Tehran.
Part of this report states: "The football association must answer why it hurt the honor of Iran and the honor of the Iranian people and issued the order for the national team to travel by land to Basra? ".
The Iranian national team was supposed to travel to Basra to play two friendly matches with Palestine and Iraq, but faced a flight restriction by the Iraqi government and traveled to this country by land.
This action received various media reactions.
Criticizing the efforts to trivialize the cancellation of the direct flight of the national team, Atmad newspaper asked: "Given the recent events and the state of the Iranian national teams, and the tweet of one of the managers of the national team, who clearly stated that the national team's flight to Iraq was canceled due to American sanctions, how could he not know that it was the political flight of Amir Kalan? ".