{"id":1747053,"date":"2022-11-21T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747053"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:47:55","slug":"raw-courage-as-iranian-government-murders-protesters-irans-soccer-team-refuses-to-sing-anthem-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raw-courage-as-iranian-government-murders-protesters-irans-soccer-team-refuses-to-sing-anthem-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Courage: As Iranian Government Murders Protesters, Iran\u2019s Soccer Team Refuses To Sing Anthem At World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fraw-courage-as-iranian-government-murders-protesters-irans-soccer-team-refuses-to-sing-anthem-at-world-cup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747053&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Iranian national soccer team, displaying remarkable moral courage in the face of the killings of protesters by their despotic, tyrannical government, refused to sing along with their national anthem at the World Cup prior to their opening game against England.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: Iran national team players choose not to sing national anthem at World Cup match; some of the Iranian crowed booing their own national anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RYPvgHMNUi\">pic.twitter.com\/RYPvgHMNUi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmichaiStein1\/status\/1594678140131020806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current anthem of Iran, the \u201cNational Anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran,\u201d was adopted in 1990. Its lyrics state:<\/p>\n<p><em>Upwards on the horizon rises the Eastern Sun<\/em><br \/><em>The light in the eyes of the\u00a0believers in truth<\/em><br \/><em>Bahman is the zenith of our faith<\/em><br \/><em>Your message, O Imam, of independence, freedom, is imprinted on our souls.<\/em><br \/><em>O\u00a0Martyrs! Your clamors echo in the ears of time<\/em><br \/><em>Enduring, continuing, and eternal<\/em><br \/><em>The Islamic Republic of Iran!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iran has had six national anthems: between 1873 and 1909, the \u201cRoyal Salute\u201d; between 1909 and 1933, the \u201cSalute of the Sublime State of Persia\u201d; between 1933 and 1979, the \u201cImperial Anthem of Iran,\u201d; \u201cOh Iran,\u201d which served briefly as the anthem between the fall of the Shah of Iran and the founding of the Islamic theocracy, and \u201cLong Live Iran,\u201d which was in use until the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy Band <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NyUFEAAAQBAJ&#038;pg=PT2022#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records<\/a> the national anthems of other countries but has not recorded the \u201cNational Anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d since the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with the despotic Iranian theocratic regime.<\/p>\n<p>The captain of Iran\u2019s soccer team implicitly spoke out about the terrorizing of Iranian citizens by the government in his home country prior to the game against England. \u201cI offer my condolences to all the bereaved families of Iran. And let them know that we are with them and sympathize with them,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IMPORTANT \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 Ahead of their game against England, Iran\u2019s captain Ehsan Hajsafi becomes the first Iranian player to speak out in support of women\u2019s rights protesters in his home country, expressing condolences to families who\u2019ve lost loved ones.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iyOiZ9cikl\">pic.twitter.com\/iyOiZ9cikl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MenInBlazers\/status\/1594497797792960515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protests in Iran have surged since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/16\/middleeast\/iranian-woman-dies-police-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini<\/a> in the custody of the government\u2019s morality police in mid-September. Since then, 378 Iranians have been killed by the government\u2019s \u201csecurity forces,\u201d including 47 children and 27 women, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/iranhr.net\/en\/articles\/5594\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the non-profit Iran Human Rights<\/a> (IHR).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our information, the killing of protesters were committed exclusively by the Islamic Republic\u2019s repressive forces,\u201d the Director of Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, stated. \u201cThe responsibility for the killing of protesters rests solely with the Islamic Republic and its leader, Ali Khamenei.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to IHR, protesters have been killed in 25 provinces, with 40 protesters killed in by state \u201csecurity forces\u201d in the week between November 12 and November 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian national soccer team, displaying remarkable moral courage in the face of the killings of protesters by their despotic, tyrannical government, refused to sing along with their national anthem at the World Cup prior to their opening game against England. #BREAKING: Iran national team players choose not to sing national anthem at World Cup &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1747056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}