Foolish FIFA: FIFA has failed to do what it could and should have done a year ago, when both Israel and the United States were already on war footing in Iran — relocate Iran’s World Cup matches to Canada and Mexico. Instead, hoping to placate an American president’s belligerent prejudices, it awarded him its inaugural Peace Prize, a red-card error in judgment since his one and only goal was the Nobel Peace Prize. It should, therefore, surprise no one that Iran will have to fly from its provisional base in Mexico to play matches in Los Angeles and Seattle, to then be herded onto a same-day flight back to Mexico with ICE and police everywhere. A simple understanding of geopolitics could have prevented most of this, but FIFA preferred the illusion that old-school American fair play would prevail over reactionary politics. Would moving Iran’s games to Mexico or Canada have been inconvenient and caused some degree of havoc? Without doubt. But better inconvenience than the fiasco now afoot.