Iran football players hold school bags in tribute to girls killed in bombing – video

The Iran men’s national football team wore black armbands and held school bags as their anthem played before a match in Turkey on Friday, in what a team official said was a protest over the killing of schoolgirls on the first day of the war. Iran were playing a friendly against Nigeria in the resort town of Belek as preparation for the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, where their participation is in doubt over the conflict. The men 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.