Iranian World Cup players mark
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Iranian World Cup players mark against the USA with pins

When Iran's national football team arrived at the World Cup base in Mexico, the players wore pins with the number 168 - symbolizing the number of victims of the school attack in Minab.

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It can be seen as a mark against the United States that the Iranian World Cup team is paying attention to the school attack that killed 168 people, most of them schoolgirls, in the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran at the end of February.

The United States has not made it easy for the Iranian World Cup team, which first had problems obtaining visas and was then forced to move its World Cup base from the United States to Mexico, despite the team playing all of its group-stage matches in the United States.

Now it is also said that Iran will have to fly in and out of the United States on match days. The first match will be played on June 15 against New Zealand.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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