Team make gesture before loss to Nigeria in Turkey
Attack on Iranian school killed more than 175 people
Iran’s players wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played before a friendly in Turkey on Friday in what a team official said was a protest over the killing of schoolgirls on the first day of the US-Israel war on Iran.
Iran were facing Nigeria in the resort town of Belek before the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, where their participation is in doubt over the conflict.
The men’s team lined up holding pink and purple bags with ribbons on them – a reference to the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School, which Tehran says killed more than 175 people, including children and teachers on the first day of joint US-Israeli strikes.
