Australia on Tuesday granted humanitarian visas to five Iranian women soccer players after they sought asylum, fearing persecution on their return home for their refusal to sing the national anthem at...

Donald Trump has told Iran’s footballers they would be welcome at the World Cup but to stay away “for their own life and safety”.

To a land ravaged by war, to the hands of a regime that had branded them “wartime traitors” for failing to sing their national anthem in their opening match of the tournament.