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A gaggle of protesters within the Gold Coast tried again today to stop a bus carrying the Iranian women’s football team to the airport.
Other recent footage appeared to point out certainly one of the players crying as she was slowly walked onto the bus by two others.
The team’s silence throughout the anthem before a gap loss to South Korea last week was viewed by some as an act of resistance and others as a show of mourning.
The team hasn’t clarified. They later sang and saluted throughout the anthem before their remaining two matches, but later, five members of the team escaped their hotel to hunt asylum in Australia.
The team was knocked out of the tournament over the weekend, at which point head coach Marziyeh Jafari said the players want to return back to Iran as soon as they’ll, in line with Australia’s national news agency, AAP.
But as their bus left, a number of the team gave an ‘SOS’ hand sign to crowds outside their bus yesterday, prompting a bunch to stop the vehicle.
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Groups of protesters surrounded the vehicle, allowing the five now refugees to flee and seek humanitarian visas.
One supporter near the bus got here with a recording she said was of certainly one of the players’ moms, telling her daughter to remain in Australia.
Farak said she got the recording from a friend in Iran, and had planned to play it when the ladies’s team departed their connecting flight in Sydney.
‘I’m pretty sure if she hears this, she’s going to wish to stay,’ Farak told the Guardian.
Not all of the players were capable of escape to safety in Australia, nonetheless, with one player seen weeping as she was led onto the team bus.
On Monday, Donald Trump blasted Australia on social media, saying Australia was ‘making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the … team to be forced back to Iran, where they’ll most definitely be killed.’
Trump called on Australia to grant the team asylum, adding: ‘The US will take them for those who won’t.’
Lower than two hours later, in one other social media post, Trump praised Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, saying, ‘He’s on it! Five have already been taken care of, and the remainder are on their way.’
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