Dramatic footage shows an Australian woman mocking panicked Iranian goons after they realized that five players from the Iranian women’s national soccer team had escaped and sought asylum.
Anxious-looking Iranian handlers, security staffers and coaches were seen running down the stairs of a hotel frantically searching for the five stars who had fled the premises, footage obtained by “Fox & Friends” shows.
“You’re in Australia now. You’re in Australia, motherf–ker,” the brazen woman taunts two men and a woman in Muslim headwear in the clip.
The Australian woman mocked and taunted the Iranians — who ran down the stairs of a hotel searching for the five stars who had fled the premises, the video shows. Instagram / @remoteleigh
“Get the f–k out of our country, IRGC,” the woman shouts at the Iranian people she filmed. Instagram / @remoteleighHere’s the latest on the Iranian women’s soccer team
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“You better run,” she continues, pursing them in the stairwell. “Yeah, we’re going to get you now.”
“What cowards,” she says.
“Get the f–k out of our country, IRGC,” she adds, referring to the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the primary branch of the Iranian military.
The Iranian soccer players had just finished a tournament in Australia on Sunday when the players escaped their hotel and requested assistance from the Australian government to remain in the country after their refusal to sing the national anthem at an Asia Cup match last week.
An undated photo released by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs on March 11, 2026, shows six Iranian football players and a team official with two unidentified local officials in Sydney, after they claimed asylum in Australia. AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS/AFP via Getty Images
An illustration showing the impact of the airstrikes in the war against Iran by the Strait of Hormuz.
The protest sparked massive backlash at home, with Iranian state media branding them “wartime traitors” for refusing to sing the anthem.
Five women on the Iran Women’s National Soccer Team — Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh and Mona Hamoudi — were each granted asylum in Australia on Monday.
Striker Mohaddeseh Zolfi, 21, and support staffer Zahra Solton Moshehkar had both joined the five others in accepting an offer to stay in safety Down Under.
However, one of the two later changed her mind and decided to go back to Iran, Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday.
It’s unclear who decided to go home.
