>Iranian soccer captain Mehdi Taremi: “Our religion doesn’t observe that, but we respect all of the LGBT people. It’s not about us. We are here to play football (soccer). We absolutely respect all of those guys
This is a genuinely better response than many of those right wing baseball players a few weeks ago and unlike them, his close family is in a country which is ruled brutally by a theocratic dictatorship
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>Iranian soccer captain Mehdi Taremi: “Our religion doesn’t observe that, but we respect all of the LGBT people. It’s not about us. We are here to play football (soccer). We absolutely respect all of those guys
This is a genuinely better response than many of those right wing baseball players a few weeks ago and unlike them, his close family is in a country which is ruled brutally by a theocratic dictatorship