Piers Morgan rips Megan Rapinoe as 'hypocritical' over silence on Iranian women's soccer team

The ‘Outnumbered’ panel breaks down Australia’s decision to grant the Iranian women’s soccer team asylum and former USWNT player Megan Rapinoe’s silence on the issue.

Piers Morgan criticized former U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe for what he described as her "silence" on the ongoing situation involving the Iranian women’s soccer team, calling it "hypocritical" given her outspoken support for transgender athletes in women’s sports. 

Morgan’s remarks came in response to a New York Post opinion piece highlighting Rapinoe’s silence, which was posted on X. 

Megan Rapinoe attends the game between the Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty on May 18, 2024, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. (Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images)

"The silence over this from Rapinoe, and so many supposed ‘feminists’ like her, is so telling, damning, and hypocritical," he wrote in his post. "They’d rather campaign for biological men to wreck women’s sport than campaign for these heroic young sportswomen to help save their lives." 

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The Iranian women’s soccer team came into the spotlight after the players appeared to silently protest their national anthem during the team’s opening match at the Women’s Asian Cup in Australia earlier this month. However, in their following two matches before being eliminated, the team sang and saluted during Iran’s anthem.

 A media frenzy ensued, concerned with the players’ and coaches’ well-being after they would inevitably have to return to Iran amid the U.S. and Israeli joint military campaign against the country. 

President Donald Trump encouraged the Australian government to grant the team asylum. Seven members of the squad had accepted