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Turmoil at home swirls around Iran team ahead of World Cup

Iran's national soccer team goalkeeper Ali Reza Beiranvand, bottom, teammate Mehdi Shiri, top and Mehdi Torabi, left, move towards the media after a training session in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Iran will face the United States, England and Wales during Qatar's FIFA World Cup. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Demonstrators attend a protest against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iran while in police custody, was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP) Protesters gather outside the UN headquarters in Erbil on Sept. 24, 2022, to protest the death of Masha Amini, who had fallen into a coma for three days after being detained by the morality police in Tehran, Iran. Iran has accused Kurdish opposition groups in exile of orchestrating the wave of protests across the country over the past two weeks. But Kurdish activists say the government is just trying to scapegoat them to distract from the domestic anger fueling the unrest.(AP Photo/Hawre Khalid, Metrography) Iran's national soccer team head coach Carlos Queiroz, in red, watches a training session in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Queiroz was rehired as Iran's coach on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to take the national soccer team to its third straight World Cup. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Turmoil at home swirls around Iran team ahead of World Cup