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Iran World Cup squad wears tribute pins for deadly school strike victims

Iran’s World Cup team arrived in Mexico wearing lapel pins highlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school at the start of the war in the Mideast.The players wore gold-colored pins with the number “168” on their jackets when getting off their plane Sunday in Tijuana, Mexico. It referred to the people killed, most of them children, when a Feb. 28 strike, likely launched by the US, hit the school in Minab in southern Iran. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Iran’s embassy in Hungary on Monday noted the pins in a social media post with a reference to Minab.The strike on the school, which was close to an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base, was previously memorialized by the Iran team before a warmup game in March in Antalya, Turkey.Players held up pink and purple school backpacks while their national anthem played. Neither the United States nor Israel has accepted responsibility for the attack on the

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