Iran's World Cup team wears pins honouring victims of school strike

Middle East Eye · June 9, 2026 Human Rights

Iran's World Cup team wears pins honouring victims of school strike Iran’s World Cup team arrived in Mexico wearing lapel pins highlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school at the start of the war. The players wore gold-coloured pins with the number “168” on their jackets when getting off their plane on Sunday in Tijuana, Mexico. It referred to the people killed, most of them children, when a 28 February strike hit the school in Minab in southern Iran.

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