The head of world football's governing body says Iran will not be kicked out of next year's World Cup finals in Germany, despite recent inflammatory remarks by its president.
There have been calls from some German politicians for the team to be excluded as punishment for remarks made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust.
President Ahmadinejad provoked global outrage earlier this week when called the Holocaust a "myth" that Europeans used as a pretext for carving out a Jewish state in the heart of the Muslim world.
It's not so much about the remarks themselves as it is that Germans hate it when you bring up the "H-word".
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