Iran’s World Cup team arrived in Mexico wearing lapel pins commemorating victims of a deadly US strike on an elementary school in Minab at the start of the Middle East war.
The players wore gold-colored pins with the number “168” on their jackets when getting off their plane Sunday in Tijuana, Mexico. It referred to the people killed, most of them children, when a February 28 strike which hit the school in Minab in southern Iran.
Iran’s embassy in Hungary on Monday noted the pins in a social media post with a reference to Minab.
The strike on the school, which was close to a Revolutionary Guard base, was previously memorialised by the Iran team before a warmup game in March in Antalya, Türkiye. Players held up pink and purple school backpacks while their national anthem played.
Neither the United States nor Israel has accepted responsibility for the attack on the school, which has come under staunch criticism from the United
The US military is investigating and has said it would never target civilians.
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