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Iran:'Football players support protest movement’

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Digital Activism, Governance, Politics, Protest, Sport

IranRiggedelect twittered [1] that BBC reported [2] that ‘six members of the Iranian football team have used a televised match to protest about the presidential election result. They were wearing green wristbands, thought to be a symbol of their support for the opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi’.