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

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Iran's World Cup team arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, wearing pins bearing the number "168" to honor victims of a February 28 missile strike on a school in Minab. The team had previously memorialized the attack, which killed mostly children and has not been claimed by the US or Israel, before a March warm-up game.

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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.

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