{"id":1755252,"date":"2022-11-29T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755252"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:48:53","slug":"report-iran-threatens-violence-and-torture-against-world-cup-players-families-over-anthem-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-iran-threatens-violence-and-torture-against-world-cup-players-families-over-anthem-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Iran Threatens \u2018Violence and Torture\u2019 Against World Cup Players\u2019 Families Over Anthem Protest"},"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\">28<\/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%2Freport-iran-threatens-violence-and-torture-against-world-cup-players-families-over-anthem-protest%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=1755252&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 families of Iran&#8217;s World Cup players could face &#8220;violence and torture&#8221; if the team doesn&#8217;t &#8220;behave,&#8221; the Islamic regime is warning players after they refused last week to sing the country&#8217;s national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>That message came from members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, who met with the team before its Friday win against Wales, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/28\/football\/iran-soccer-family-threats-intl-spt\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0The Iranian officers are in Qatar to track the actions of players, who are forbidden from meeting with foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a large number of Iranian security officers in Qatar collecting information and monitoring the players,&#8221; a source familiar with the matter told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The regime&#8217;s threat comes after the Iran World Cup team <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/irans-world-cup-team-refuses-to-sing-national-anthem-in-apparent-protest-against-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused<\/a> to sing the country&#8217;s anthem ahead of its Nov. 21 match against England. The apparent protest was likely a sign of solidarity with the mass protests across Iran following the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country&#8217;s morality police.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/state-dept-voices-support-for-iranian-athletes-ahead-of-world-cup-showdown-with-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed support<\/a> for the players, saying the regime should heed the &#8220;athletes&#8217; calls for change.&#8221; Iranian state television <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/irans-world-cup-team-refuses-to-sing-national-anthem-in-apparent-protest-against-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut away<\/a> from coverage of the Nov. 21 game\u00a0during the anthem protest.\u00a0Back home, the regime is using internet <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/internet-outage-in-iran-as-regime-clamps-down-on-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackouts<\/a> to thwart protesters in the country&#8217;s Kurdish-populated areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The families of Iran&#8217;s World Cup players could face &#8220;violence and torture&#8221; if the team doesn&#8217;t &#8220;behave,&#8221; the Islamic regime is warning players after they refused last week to sing the country&#8217;s national anthem.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Iran Threatens \u2018Violence and Torture\u2019 Against World Cup Players\u2019 Families Over Anthem Protest appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1755255,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1755252","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\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}