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Gavin Blackburn

Australia grants citizenship to two Iranian women footballers who sought asylum

Two members of the Iranian women’s football team who claimed asylum in Australia in March have been granted citizenship.

Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh said in a statement on Thursday that Immigration Minister Tony Burke swore them in the day before at a citizenship ceremony in their adopted home city Brisbane.

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