FIFA World Cup 2022: Iran players refuse to sing national anthem in protest against Khamenei’s violence
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In a major development, the Iran football players refused to sing their national anthem in protest against violence by country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a video doing the rounds on social media, the Iranian players can be seen staying silent when their country's national anthem was played. The protest comes after Mahsa Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, was arrested by Iranian police for not wearing a hijab