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President Trump said he would offer the Iranian women’s soccer team asylum if they are not given the same legal protection in Australia. “Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Woman’s Soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed. Don’t do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give ASYLUM. The U.S. will take them if you won’t,” Trump said on Truth Social. "Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Woman’s Soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed. Don’t do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give ASYLUM. The U.S. will take them if you won’t…" – @POTUS pic.twitter.com/OTIsmVavJR — The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 9, 2026 Members of the soccer team participated in a silent protest of their country’s regime and reportedly were condemned as “wartime traitors” on Iranian state TV following their silence during the national anthem in their first group game against South Korea. DEFIANT SILENCE: In a powerful scene, the Iranian women’s national soccer team remained silent during their national anthem at the Asian Cup on Monday. Iran is the only team from the Middle East to qualify for this year’s tournament. The moment came days after the United States… pic.twitter.com/3rrT77R0zU — Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2026 The Australian-hosted Asian Cup tournament started when the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran. The Iranian women’s team was eliminated on Sunday after losing 2-0 to the Philippines. Newsweek shared further: It comes as the office of Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi said that five members of the Iranian women’s national football team—Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh, and Mona Hamoudi—had left their training camp and successfully sought refuge in Australia. “These five courageous athletes, currently in a safe location, have announced they they have joined Iran’s national Lion and Sun Revolution,” the office said on X. On March 3, members of Iran women’s national football team declined to sing the national anthem before their Asian Cup match against South Korea in Australia. Three days later, the team sang the anthem before their defeat to Australia, raising concerns that they had been ordered to do so. On Sunday, Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong refused to comment on whether the country had been in contact with the players. “I don’t want to get into commentary about the Iranian women’s team. Obviously this is a regime that we know has brutally cracked down on its people,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I just spoke to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of Australia, concerning the Iranian National Women’s Soccer Team. He’s on it! Five have already been taken care of, and the rest are on their way,” Trump said in an update post. “Some, however, feel they must go back because they are worried about the safety of their families, including threats to those family members if they don’t return. In any event, the Prime Minister is doing a very good job having to do with this rather delicate situation. God bless Australia!” he added. The Hill noted: Concerns over the safety of the Iranian national women’s soccer team come just weeks before the men’s team is slated to play in the United States for World Cup matches this summer. FIFA has not commented publicly on if the Iranian men’s team will be able to travel safely to North America, while Trump has said he “does not care” if the Iran team competes, casting the country as “very badly defeated,” and “running on fumes.” What’s your assessment?

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after “confirming” the Department of War designated it as a “supply chain risk to America’s national security.” “The language used by the Department of War in the letter (even supposing it was legally sound) matches our statement on Friday that the vast majority of our customers are unaffected by a supply chain risk designation,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement. “With respect to our customers, it plainly applies only to the use of Claude by customers as a direct part of contracts with the Department of War, not all use of Claude by customers who have such contracts,” he continued. Anthropic sues Trump admin over supply-chain risk label https://t.co/JTMFuOh7Zu — POLITICO (@politico) March 9, 2026 CNBC explained further: The company said in a complaint that these actions are “unprecedented and unlawful,” and that they are “harming Anthropic irreparably.” The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. “Anthropic’s contracts with the federal government are already being canceled. Current and future contracts with private parties are also in doubt, jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars in the near-term,” the filing says. “On top of those immediate economic harms, Anthropic’s reputation and core First Amendment freedoms are under attack. Absent judicial relief, those harms will only compound in the weeks and months ahead.” The lawsuit is the latest episode in a dramatic two-week saga between Anthropic and the Trump administration over how the company’s AI models can be used on the battlefield and elsewhere. Before the spat between the two sides escalated into the public’s view late last month, Anthropic served as an early partner across many U.S. agencies as the government sought to rapidly upgrade its systems and capabilities with cutting-edge AI technology. On Thursday, Anthropic confirmed that it had officially been designated a supply chain risk, an extraordinary move that has historically been reserved for foreign adversaries. It will require defense vendors and contractors to certify that they don’t use Anthropic’s models in their work with the Pentagon. “The Department’s letter has a narrow scope, and this is because the relevant statute (10 USC 3252) is narrow, too. It exists to protect the government rather than to punish a supplier; in fact, the law requires the Secretary of War to use the least restrictive means necessary to accomplish the goal of protecting the supply chain,” Amodei said. “Even for Department of War contractors, the supply chain risk designation doesn’t (and can’t) limit uses of Claude or business relationships with Anthropic if those are unrelated to their specific Department of War contracts,” he continued. Axios has more: Procurement laws passed by Congress do not give the Pentagon or President Trump the power to blacklist a company, Anthropic says. Companies including Microsoft and Google have said they’ll be able to continue non-defense related work with Anthropic. A second, shorter lawsuit was filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals because another statute the government invoked can only be challenged there and similar arguments are being made there, Anthropic says. The company is seeking relief in both jurisdictions. The Pentagon argues the dispute is about operational control, not speech. Department officials say this has always been about the military’s ability to use technology legally, without a vendor inserting itself into the chain of command and putting warfighters at risk.