Iran’s women’s soccer team refused to sing the country’s national anthem before playing a game against South Korea in Australia,\u00a0The Guardian reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The players’ actions came as Israel continued its war against Iran in the form of Operation Roaring Lion.<\/a> As the war progressed, Israel successfully eliminated many of the country’s leaders, adding yet more instability, which may lead to an Iranian societal upheaval.<\/p>\n As shown in the video, the team members stood silently in a row as the anthem’s instrumental played.<\/p>\n The soccer game was the opening match of the Asia Cup.<\/p>\n Another Iranian athlete, former soccer star and current coach Ali Karimi, also spoke out against the regime.<\/p>\n In a post on X\/Twitter, Karimi celebrated the strike, which leveled Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei<\/a>‘s palace to the ground.<\/p>\n “They wanted to turn the White House into a Husseiniya,” Karimi wrote, “It turned into a restroom instead.”<\/p>\n Another famous Iranian sports player who spoke out against the current regime during Operation Roaring Lion was French-Iranian chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour.<\/p>\n Hejazipour made numerous statements on X\/Twitter expressing her distaste for Khamenei<\/a>‘s reign, and her joy at his and other Iranian officials being assassinated. She also made several jokes disparaging Khamenei and those surrounding him.<\/p>\n