Iranian players hold schoolbags in solidarity with slain girls

Iran’s men’s national soccer team wore black armbands and held schoolbags as their anthem played ahead of a match in Turkey on Friday in what a team official said was a protest over the killing of schoolgirls on the first day of the Iran war.

Iran were playing a friendly against Nigeria in the resort town of Belek ahead of the World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada where their participation is in doubt over the conflict.

The men lined up holding pink and purple bags with ribbons on them ...