Iran needed help to save their ‘disaster’ World Cup. Instead they got more heartbreak
Team Melli’s agonizing exit after other results failed to break their way is a moment of anguish that rises to the top of a football history full of them Mehdi Taremi lay on the ground at Seattle Stad
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