After the USA’s win, a mutual feeling of respect and fellowship emerged, ‘transcending that petty crap from governments’
It was not so much the Great Satan. More the Great Love In. And over two enjoyable hours at the Saitama Super Arena, the basketball teams of the United States and Islamic Republic of Iran gave a salutary lesson in harmony, decency and class to many of their political leaders over the past 42 years.
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