Iranian fans erupted in joy watching their team in cinemas and public spaces in Tehran. Meiselas argues this is a perspective of Iran — joyful, passionate, deeply human — that corporate US media deliberately ignores.
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Moving beyond the political to the human, Meiselas shares footage of Iranian fans erupting in joy at Tehran cinemas and public spaces during their team's matches — a perspective, he argues, that corporate US news systematically suppresses. He then describes Palestinians in central Gaza gathering publicly to watch the Iran-Egypt match, the broadcast offering a brief respite from ongoing war. The sequence closes with a detail that cuts through all geopolitics: an Iranian father building a handmade cardboard football pitch so his visually impaired son could feel the game through touch. These moments are Meiselas's counterargument to dehumanizing narratives about Iran.
Families and football fans gathered in central Gaza Strip to watch a live broadcast of the Egypt vs. Iran World Cup match amid the ongoing conflict.
Families and football fans gathered in central Gaza to publicly watch the Egypt-Iran World Cup match, with the screening offering a brief respite from the ongoing war. It was a reminder that sports connect people governments try to divide.
Iranian fans at the Seattle stadium brought photographs of Iranian women and girls killed in Manab, which Meiselas described as US-committed war crimes.
An Iranian father built a handmade cardboard football pitch so his visually impaired son could experience the Iran-Egypt World Cup match through touch. It was the kind of moment that cuts through geopolitical noise.
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