The football team stayed silent while the anthem was played before their 6-2 defeat to England on Monday, in a symbolic show of support for the protest movement that has roiled Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September.
Team Melli, as the national team is known, had previously drawn criticism from protesters for even competing in Qatar, and footage of them bowing in front of President Ebrahim Raisi at a send-off meeting drew more anger.
Yesterday, Mehdi Chamran, the chairman of Tehran city council, said: "We will never allow anyone to insult our anthem and flag. Iranian civilisation has a history of several thousand years, this civilisation is as old as the total of European and American civilisations."
A conservative MP in Kurdistan, meanwhile, called for the national team to be replaced by faithful and revolutionary youth willing to sing their national anthem.
Iran's heavily censored media made very little mention of the team not singing the national anthem. Kayhan, probably the newspaper closest to the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, vented its fury at the way in which protesters had cheered an England victory, saying "for weeks foreign media had conducted ruthless and unprecedented psychological-media war against this team".
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