Iran’s national football team arrives in Mexico for the World Cup wearing badges that pay tribute to children killed in a missile strike in Iran, according to reporting. The badges reference the deaths of children, with one account citing the deaths of about 168 children following an attack on a girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28. The reports say the incident involved a strike described as carried out by a US missile.
The coverage also links the arrival to broader political tensions involving visas and the Trump administration, described as a “visa feud,” though details are not specified in the excerpts provided. Across the cited material, the central points are the team’s public display of remembrance on arrival and the reference to the Minab school attack and the number of child victims attributed to that event.
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