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Activist Masih Alinejad says the Iranian team ‘doesn’t represent the people but the regime’

Activists accuse state forces of deploying heavy weaponry, as attacks on Kurdish areas intensify

Iran’s World Cup 2022 coach Carlos Queiroz has called on fans to allow his team to be ‘simple football’ players.

Repression in Iran since death of Mahsa Amini made some wish players took bolder stance against government

Activists say Iranian security forces have used heavy gunfire against protesters in a Kurdish town in the country’s west

As tensions flare at home, there are factions who don’t think Iran should be at the World Cup at all, but Team Melli is there, and its stance is being projected to a global audience.

A major disruption in internet service in Iran was confirmed by the NetBlocks internet monitor on Monday, raising fears among rights groups of a cut-off in internet access to help crush anti-government unrest in Kurdish-populated regions. The nationwide protests, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini…

The protest is said to have broken out at the funeral of two people killed on Sunday

Iran's World Cup team declined to sing their anthem before their opening World Cup match on Monday in a sign of support for mass protests back home after many fans accused the squad of siding with a violent state crackdown on the unrest. Protests demanding the fall of the ruling…