Iranian football players hold schoolbags in solidarity with girls killed in walkout on Minab school
Iran’s men’s national football team wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played ahead of a match in Turkey on Friday, in what a
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Iranian football players hold schoolbags in solidarity with girls killed in walkout on Minab school
Iran’s men’s national football team wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played ahead of a match in Turkey on Friday, in what a team official stated was a demonstration over the killing of schoolgirls on the first day of the Iran conflict.
Iran were playing a friendly against Nigeria in the Mediterranean resort town of Belek ahead of the World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada, at which their participation is in doubt due to the dispute.
Iran players line up before the match as school bags are laid in memory of the victims of the girls school bombing in Minab, Iran, Public demonstration 27, 2026. — Reuters The men lined up holding pink and purple bags with ribbons on them — a reference to the assault on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School that Tehran states killed more than 175 individuals, including children and educators, on the first day of joint US-Israeli strikes on the country.
Mehdi Mohammad Nabi, a vice head of the Iranian football federation, informed Reuters that the players had decided to stage the demonstration as a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the victims.
“They were deeply affected by the bombing of the girls’ school and wanted to express their sympathy,” Nabi stated, speaking in Farsi through the association’s translator. “This was a collective ruling by the team. We are united.”
Iran players line up before the match as school bags are laid in memory of the victims of the girls school bombing in Minab, Iran, Public demonstration 27, 2026. — Reuters US legal defence team investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their probe.
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