Goldie Ghamari - Egypt vs Iran FIFA Pride Match - What was the woke left in Seattle thinking？

00:00:00.000 Can we pause for a moment and appreciate the utter insanity of calling a soccer match between

00:00:08.160 Egypt and the Islamic Republic occupying Iran a pride match? You know, just when I think these

00:00:15.480 woke progressives can't get any stupider, they outdo themselves. Both Egypt and the Islamic 1.00

00:00:21.800 Republic occupying Iran persecute homosexuals. In fact, the Islamic Republic occupying Iran has 0.84

00:00:28.500 hanged somewhere between 4000 to 6000 homosexuals since they occupied Iran in 1979. And yet some

00:00:36.620 woke progressive Western liberal who probably can't even point out Tehran on a map, thought it 0.79

00:00:42.720 was a good idea to dedicate a game between Egypt and the Islamic Republic occupying Iran to LGBTQ

00:00:49.900 rights. Then again, these are probably the same people who go around chanting gays for Gaza and 0.84

00:00:55.740 queers for Palestine, right, which is the equivalent of saying chickens for KFC or cows for 0.90

00:01:01.640 Burger King. And of course, as expected, both Egypt and the Islamic Republic occupying Iran 0.94

00:01:07.500 have sent formal complaints to FIFA because this is not part of their cultural values as they

00:01:13.500 claimed. You literally can't make this stuff up. Here, look at this. Iran and Egypt have lodged

00:01:20.840 formal protests with FIFA after Seattle designated their 2026 World Cup group stage game as a pride

00:01:28.480 match, triggering a diplomatic and cultural backlash from two countries where homosexuality

00:01:34.820 is criminalized. The decision has been announced previously by Seattle's local organizing committee

00:01:40.700 as part of the host city's pride weekend celebrations long before match dates and

00:01:46.160 venues were assigned. When FIFA released the official schedule on Saturday, it confirmed

00:01:51.380 that the June 26th Group G match would be between Iran and Egypt at the Lumen Field Falls on

00:01:57.820 Seattle's annual Pride weekend, during which the city traditionally holds public events and art

00:02:03.380 displays honoring the LGBTQ plus community. Here's where it gets interesting. At first,

00:02:11.720 plans to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month at a FIFA World Cup match were set to continue,

00:02:17.420 even though the two countries selected for the fixture both have draconian anti-gay laws.

00:02:23.320 However, after formal protests by both Egypt and the Islamic Republic occupying Iran,

00:02:28.960 the organizers are now taking a different approach. Following a wave of official and

00:02:33.820 media backlash over labeling the Iran-Egypt World Cup match as a pride match, the Seattle

00:02:39.720 Local Organizing Committee has clarified that the initiative has no connection to the match itself

00:02:44.740 or to the stadium where the game will be played. Really? Because that's not what you were saying

00:02:51.020 just a few days ago. Hannah Tades, spokesperson for the Seattle Organizing Committee, told

00:02:56.800 Germany's DPA news agency, we have no involvement inside the stadium or on the pitch. With this

00:03:03.100 statement, Seattle officials effectively shifted responsibility for any decisions related to the

00:03:08.400 official framework of the match to FIFA. However much they try to deny it though, their stupidity 1.00

00:03:14.300 and idiocy is already out there. The article continues. The controversy erupted after the 1.00

00:03:20.820 Seattle committee used the title pride match for the Iran-Egypt fixture, describing it as a symbolic

00:03:28.080 gesture of solidarity with the LGBTQ community. The move prompted strong and formal protests

00:03:36.520 from the football federations of both Iran and Egypt, which condemned the decision as

00:03:42.020 inconsistent with their cultural and sporting values. When I first heard about this story,

00:03:49.180 I actually thought it was parody. Like, I could not even comprehend that anyone could be so stupid 1.00

00:03:57.680 or idiotic to name a match that involves the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the most 1.00

00:04:04.860 brutal Islamic dictatorship in the world that implements Sharia law, that hangs homosexuals 1.00

00:04:11.500 for the crime of being gay, I could not even comprehend how someone could be so stupid or 1.00

00:04:20.980 ignorant or idiotic to name a soccer match that involves Iran, the Islamic Republic occupying 1.00

00:04:29.060 Iran as a pride match. And of course, they completely lack any sort of self-awareness 1.00

00:04:36.460 or shame or humility. And now they're trying to blame it on FIFA as if this was somehow

00:04:41.360 FIFA's decision to turn the match between Egypt and the Islamic Republic of Iran into a pride match.

00:04:49.300 Zero self-awareness, zero accountability. I mean, I would say that I would hope that they would have 1.00

00:04:56.560 learned a lesson but given how stupid and idiotic and probably narcissistic they are I don't think 1.00

00:05:02.720 they've learned anything but at least I hope for the rest of you this shows how stupid and idiotic 1.00

00:05:10.200 some of these people really are and they're they're literally living in their fantasy la-la 1.00

00:05:16.500 land I mean I guess at the very least what the story has done is it has exposed the difficult

00:05:22.960 situation that homosexuals face in the Middle East, especially in the Islamic Republic occupying

00:05:28.720 Iran. Yeah. I don't know. Sometimes people's stupidity just leaves me speechless. 0.69

Goldie Ghamari - December 09, 2025

Egypt vs Iran FIFA Pride Match - What was the woke left in Seattle thinking？

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