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Iran’s players wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played before a friendly in Turkey on Friday in what an official said was a protest over the killing of schoolgirls

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 4 points 5 days ago

Thank goodness they included the quote from the Iranian spokesperson, otherwise you might be confused as to who did the bombing from how carefully the article avoids attributing the attack:

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.

“The players are holding the school bags close to their heart in remembrance of the 165 girls the Americans killed in an Iranian school,” an Iranian team spokesperson confirmed.