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WEST ASIA CONFLICT SINGES SPORTS ON AND OFF FIELD
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|March 17, 2026
RIGHT now, sports and geopolitics seem inseparable the world over.
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Not long ago, Bangladesh pulled out of the T20 World Cup over security concerns in India. Now, Iran’s participation at the football World Cup is under a cloud. The raging West Asia conflict is singeing sports, with a number of events cancelled, postponed or relocated.A head of state rarely speaks about the safety concerns of visiting athletes. Yet, a day after Iran’s sports minister said that their national team cannot travel amid war to participate in the FIFA World Cup to be held in the US, Canada and Mexico this June-July, the US President went a step further and stated they should not “come for their own life and safety”.
This story is from the March 17, 2026 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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