An Iran fan was ejected from the venue as she carried a Mahsa Amini Jersey during Iran vs Wales FIFA World Cup 2022 match
FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar provides huge crowd and platform for the protesters.
Iranian supporters showed up in the crowds on Friday during their team’s match against Wales at the FIFA World Cup 2022 to show support for the situation there. As a result of pro-government supporters intimidating anti-government supporters outside the stadium in Qatar on Friday, Iran’s political unrest also cast a shadow over Iran’s second World Cup match in 2022.
Iran Football Fan Removed From Qatar Stadium For Carrying A Mahsa Amini Jersey During FIFA World Cup 2022 Match
Before their match against Wales, the Iran players chanted along to their national anthem as several stadium patrons sobbed, unlike in their first game against England.
As supporters of the Iranian regime surrounded the female fans with national flags and recorded them on their phones, many of them appeared clearly disturbed.
One 35-year-old woman named Maryam, who, like other Iranian fans, chose not to disclose her last name out of concern for government retaliation, began to cry as yelling men blowing horns around her and closely videotaped her face. On her face, the words “Woman Life Freedom” were painted.
During Friday’s match between Iran and Wales at the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, a supporter of Iran was asked to leave the venue because he was wearing a jersey with Mahsa Amini’s name on it. During the game, Iran supporters from the stadium tweeted that the Qatari police had forcibly removed a woman who was wearing an Iran jersey with Mahsa Amini’s name emblazoned on the back.
After Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, was allegedly slain by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s clothing code for women, people in Iran took to the streets to protest the Islamic Republic.
BRAVERY. During the Iran match, a fan defiantly held up a shirt with Mahsa Amini’s name, and had it taken by authorities. Amini was arrested by Morality Police in Iran for not wearing a hijab. She died in custody. Her death has sparked women’s rights protests across that nation. pic.twitter.com/AowJyytiqy
— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) November 25, 2022
Qatari forces are helping the dictator regime of Iran to silence Iranian people in the stadium. Flags with #MahsaAmini’s name and “women life freedom” are getting censored and collected by force. Shame on FIFA!#FIFAWorldCup #SayTheirNames pic.twitter.com/CXUm6D8bE8
— چراغ آسمان (@cheragh_aseman) November 25, 2022
The World Cup has provided a crucial platform for Iranian protesters to voice their opposition to the government there. With signs reading “Women, Life, Freedom,” Iranian supporters of the protestors arrived at the stadium.
Iranian players refused to sing the national anthem before the match versus England in a show of open defiance toward the Ebrahim Raisi-led Iranian government. Numerous allegations that the players had been warned they would face consequences if they failed to perform the national anthem prior to their match against Wales surfaced soon after that. As was to be expected, the players sung the national song hesitantly as Iranian supporters jeered their own anthem.
Voria Ghafouri, a well-known former Iranian international, was detained by the police and accused of disseminating “propaganda against the state” and ruining “the reputation of the national team.”