Activist Masih Alinejad ignites the controversy with her recent remarks on Iran's national football team

Be it the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup, the players of some countries find it as a stage to address the inner turbulence and tensions going on in their respective countries. Iran is the most recent example of this. The players of the national football team of Iran refused to sing their national anthem ahead of their tournament opener against England.

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When everyone in the footballing world or the people apart from it is appreciating the gesture of Iranian players to showcase their solidarity with their natives, the Iranian activist Masih Alinejad has another stand on this.

She went a bit too harsh to say that the football team isn’t representing the people of Iran, but they are just toeing what the government wants.

Here's what Masih Alnejad said in her tweet

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"Iran is the only country in the World Cup that its people want their national football team to lose since the team doesn't represent the people but the regime," wrote Ms. Alinejad in her recent tweet in the aftermath of this incident that happened in the FIFA World Cup 2022 before the start of the match between Iran and England.

Iran is the only country in the World Cup that its people want their national football team to lose since the team doesn’t represent the people but the regime.We want our people to win in the streets where protesters are getting killed for demanding freedom & dignity.#MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/1nl91fghhK

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) November 21, 2022

The demographic diameter of Iran is in an extreme state of shock for the last two months following the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after being held by the morality police. The incident happened on the 16^th of October. Since then, almost 400 individuals have succumbed to death during the nationwide protests, says the reports of Iran Human Rights based in Oslo.

Speaking about Ms. Alinejad is a renowned personality and currently, a face for women in Iran who are falling prey to the physical abuses and other miseries followed to the extent of their killings. They are facing all this for their choice to not wear masks and keep their hair free.

Coming back to the national football team of Iran, they are stuck between the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran who are keen to let them follow what the Tehran-based establishment wants and the fans who want their national heroes to stand with them in the agitations over Mahsa Amini’s death.