Iran players ends silent protest, sings national anthem at World Cup

Before their match against Wales, Iran's soccer team sang the national anthem. The players did not sing the anthem in their opening game in apparent support of protesters back home.

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39 comments

    1. @eaStudio HD Do you really think the West were able to pay them not to sing without any consequences? If that was the case they would have been in Evin under torture, and hung.
      You are either an Islamic Republic propagandist or have no idea how the Islamic Republic of Iran operates.

    2. You realise that in many countries not singing the national anthem or not standing up for the national anthem puts you in prison or you are given a fine.

    1. Foreign fundamentalists don’t have a say regarding Iran protests or national teams. They can go ruin their own backward countries

    2. @faith Alnemer the song is beautiful. What is the relationship between Shiites and politics?
      Do we leave Shiism because of politicians?

  1. I mean in football nobody cares about politics….let the Iranian team members live their dream and be happy no matter what their political views are 🤷🏻‍♀️

  2. I love iranian players.. thanks you guys. I love Persian.. lion in middle east 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🦵💪🦵💪🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲 from Philippines half iranian half Philippines. I proud of father ali masoud iranian…

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