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A | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well.The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.Other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, but the CIA's acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency's history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch. That complicates the public's understanding of an event that still resonates, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic's rapidly advancing nuclear program, its aiding of militia groups across the Mideast and as it cracks down on dissent. The “CIA’s leadership is committed to being as open with the public as possible," the agency said in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press. "The agency’s podcast is part of that effort — and we knew that if we wanted to tell this incredible story, it was important to be transparent about the historical context surrounding these events, and CIA’s role in it.”In response to questions from the AP, Iran's mission to the United Nations described the 1953 coup as marking “the inception of relentless American meddling in Iran’s internal affairs” and dismissed the U.S. acknowledgments.“The U.S. admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its subversive policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the mission said in a statement. The CIA's podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats' escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.The caper, retold in the 2012 Academy Award-winning film “Argo” directed by and starring Ben Affleck, offered a dramatized version of the operation, with Affleck playing the late CIA officer Antonio “Tony” Mendez. The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson. He previously only had been known publicly by the pseudonym “Julio.”“Working with the six — these are rookies," Johnson recounts in an interview aired by the podcast. "They were people who were not trained to lie to authorities. They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.” But in the podcast, another brief exchange focuses on the 1953 coup.In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments.“We should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule,” Trosin says of the 1953 coup.CIA historian Brent Geary, appearing on the podcast, agrees.“This is one of the exceptions to that," Geary says.Seven decades later, the 1953 coup remains as hotly debated as ever by Iran, its theocratic government, historians and others. Iran's hard-line state television spent hours discussing the coup that toppled Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on its anniversary in June. In their telling, a straight line leads from the coup to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ultimately toppled the fatally ill shah. It still fuels the anti-Americanism that colors decisions made by the theocracy, whether in arming Russia in its war on Ukraine or alleging without evidence that Washington fomented the recent nationwide mass protests targeting it. From the U.S. side, the CIA's hand in the coup quickly was revealed as a success of Cold War espionage, though historians in recent years have debated just how much influence the agency's actions had. It also led the CIA into a series of further coups in other countries, including Guatemala, where American clandestine action in 1954 installed a military dictator and sparked a 40-year civil war that likely killed some 245,000 people.That's led to an American political reappraisal of the 1953 CIA action in Iran. Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged the U.S.' "significant role" in the coup in 2000. President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, described the CIA's work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.” But largely absent from the discussion was the CIA itself. After years of conflicting versions of the coup both in public and classified papers, a member of the CIA's own in-house team of historians wrote a reappraisal of the operation in a 1998 paper titled “Zendebad, Shah!” in Farsi — or “Long Live the Shah!”But despite a series of American historical documents being made public, including a major tranche of State Department papers in 2017, large portions of that CIA reappraisal remain heavily redacted despite attempts to legally pry them loose by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive. That's even after pledges by former agency directors Robert Gates and James Woolsey Jr. in the 1990s to release documents from that coup and others engineered by the agency. Further complicating any historical reckoning is the CIA's own admission that many files related to the 1953 coup likely had been destroyed in the 1960s.“It’s wrong to suggest that the coup operation itself has been fully declassified. Far from it," said Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archive. "Important parts of the record are still being withheld, which only contributes to public confusion and encourages myth-making about the U.S. role long after the fact.”。

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直播吧4月21日讯亚足联宣布中国获得2026至2028年连续3届U17女足亚洲杯主办权，略有遗憾的是这次中国足协未能拿下同时段U17男足亚洲杯的主办权，《足球》报撰文谈到中国足协未来有哪些大赛可以申办。

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未来中国在申办足球国际大赛方面还会继续推进工作，中国足协已经表态准备申办2027年U20亚洲杯。U17、U20男女足世界杯，特别是亚洲杯、亚冠决赛阶段赛事甚至世俱杯、世界杯，这些都是中国足协努力的目标。

竞技层面上为各年龄组男女足国家队提供大赛历练机会，经济层面上加速推动国内足球产业的发展，这将为中国足球的未来发展打下更好的基础。只是近年留给中国能申办的洲际以上大赛已不多，中国足协需要尽快启动申办，全力以赴。

今年，深圳主办2025年U20男足亚洲杯、武汉主办2025年女足亚冠联赛四强赛。除了亚运会这样的综合性运动会，中国最近一次主办足球洲际赛事就是U20男足亚洲杯，上次中国主办成年足球洲际大赛是2010年的女足亚洲杯。

在中国足协战略发展规划中，主办洲际以上的足球大赛是促进国内足球发展的重要手段。国内现代化、大容量的专业足球场不断投入使用，主办国际足球大赛能让这些球场得到充分使用，产生更大的经济价值。

D | 另外，现阶段更重要的是主办洲际以上足球大赛可以让低谷中的各年龄组国家队得到更多大赛历练，增加进入各年龄组世界杯的概率。

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从今年起，U17男女足世界杯均改为每年一届，男足扩军到48队，亚洲拥有8个出线名额；女足扩军到24队，亚洲拥有4个出线名额。中国U17女足将参加今年摩洛哥U17女足世界杯，此次时隔3年再次参加U17女足世界杯是亚足联根据2017、2019和2024年U17这3届女足亚洲杯综合成绩“推荐”入围。

明年开始连续3届U17女足亚洲杯在中国举办，中国U17女足有东道主之利，进入亚洲杯半决赛、直接晋级世界杯的可能性大增。中国未来申办大赛将优先考虑青少年洲际以上的赛事，例如U20男女足亚洲杯、U23男足亚洲杯，乃至U17和U20男女足世界杯。如果要提升成年国足大赛经验以及晋级世界大赛的可能性，还是要力争主办亚洲杯、世界杯或者世俱杯这样的成年洲际以上大赛。

中国要在申办层面发力，要清楚的是还有多少大赛申办的机会。未来3年U17女足亚洲杯的主办权交给了中国，未来3年U17男足亚洲杯的主办权交给了沙特，2026年U23男足亚洲杯、2027年男足亚洲杯以及2024/25和2025/26赛季亚冠精英联赛八强决赛阶段都由沙特主办。2026、2029年女足亚洲杯主办权被澳大利亚和乌兹别克斯坦得到。

3月31日是2031年男足亚洲杯申办的申请截止日，中国足协选择不申办。韩国、澳大利亚、印尼、印度都提出申办，乌兹别克斯坦与吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦三国组合申办，西亚的阿联酋和科威特也提出了申办。

理论上申办2031年男足亚洲杯成功率极低的阿联酋、科威特和中亚三国组合坚持申办是因为亚足联透出可能同时确定2031和2035亚洲杯主办权的风声。如果亚足联最终作出这样的决定，中国要申办男足亚洲杯最早都要等到2039年。

U17男女足世界杯2025至2029年连续5年的主办权分别由卡塔尔和摩洛哥获得，中国最早要到2030年才能申办。中国近年可能申办成功的洲际赛事只剩U20男女足亚洲杯、U23男足亚洲杯和U20男女足世界杯，这些赛事目前都是两年一届。

目前中国足协已表态有意申办2027年U20亚洲杯，若要申办2027年U20男足世界杯，以及2028年的U20女足亚洲杯、U23男足亚洲杯和U20女足世界杯，需要提前开始准备各项工作。从目前看，U20男女足世界杯未来必然会扩军并改为每年一届，主办国大概率会延循前例连续5届打包申办。