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A assemblage celebrated the Iranian shot team's nonaccomplishment by dancing to euphony successful the north-western metropolis of Sanandaj
Anti-government protesters successful Iran person been celebrating the nationalist shot team's elimination from the World Cup, pursuing their 1-0 nonaccomplishment to the USA.
Videos showed radical dancing successful streets and honking car horns successful Tehran and respective different cities connected Tuesday night.
Many Iranians refused to enactment their shot squad successful Qatar, seeing it arsenic a practice of the Islamic Republic.
State-affiliated media blamed hostile forces some wrong and extracurricular Iran for putting unfair unit connected the players.
The players did not sing the nationalist anthem earlier their archetypal game, a 6-2 decision by England, successful an evident look of solidarity with the protesters.
But they did sing astatine the Wales game, which they won 2-0, and astatine the politically-charged showdown against the USA.
Some protesters saw that arsenic a betrayal of their origin adjacent though determination were reports that the squad came nether aggravated unit from Iranian authorities.
The unrest started 10 weeks agone pursuing the decease successful custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old pistillate arrested by morality constabulary successful Tehran for allegedly violating the strict rules requiring women to screen their hairsbreadth with a hijab.
Authorities person responded to what they person portrayed arsenic foreign-backed "riots" with a convulsive crackdown successful which quality rights activists accidental astatine slightest 450 radical person been killed, including 60 children. More than 18,000 others are reported to person been arrested.
A video posted online connected Tuesday nighttime appeared to amusement dozens of radical celebrating the Iranian shot team's nonaccomplishment astatine a quadrate successful Mahsa Amini's location metropolis of Saqqez, successful the country's north-west. They tin beryllium heard cheering and waving headscarves earlier fireworks are acceptable off.
BBC Persian besides received akin videos from respective different cities successful the predominantly Kurdish region, wherever dozens of protesters person reportedly been killed by information forces successful caller weeks.
Crowds were filmed dancing to euphony successful Sanandaj, an epicentre of the unrest, portion successful Kermanshah and Marivan they were heard chanting "Woman, life, freedom" - 1 of the main slogans of the protests.
In Tehran, students astatine Imam Sadiq University gathered extracurricular a hallway of residence and chanted "Death to the dishonourable" - an adjective protesters person utilized against information forces and which was shouted by fans wrong the stadium during Iran's lucifer against England.
There was besides a confrontation betwixt opponents and supporters of the authorities extracurricular the Al Thumama Stadium successful Qatar aft Tuesday's match.
Danish writer Rasmus Tantholdt filmed respective men carrying Iranian flags shoving a antheral wearing a T-shirt saying "Woman, life, freedom" successful English. A pistillate with him is past heard complaining that she attacked and asking for assistance to permission the stadium safely.
State-affiliated media successful Iran meantime praised the nationalist shot squad contempt their nonaccomplishment to suffice for the World Cup's knockout stages.
The blimpish Farhikhtegan paper said "we are arrogant of Iran", portion the Revolutionary Guards-linked regular Javan said the squad had "won the existent game: the crippled of uniting people's hearts".
Keyhan, whose exertion is appointed by the ultimate leader, said the squad had gone into the tourney nether "the astir unfair conditions", with unit from "mercenaries astatine location and abroad".
Before the match, the hard-line Tasnim quality bureau rejected a study by CNN, which cited an unnamed information root arsenic saying that the Revolutionary Guards had threatened the families of the Iranian players with "imprisonment and torture" if they did not "behave".
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