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On the 29th (local time), as the Iranian national team lost to the United States and their advance to the round of 16 in the World Cup in Qatar was frustrated, an Iranian man who was cheering for this was shot and killed by Iranian security forces, British media such as the BBC and the Guardian reported. .



Human rights activists said 27-year-old Mehran Desert was shot while celebrating the Iranian national team's defeat by honking his car horn in the northern Iranian city of Bandar Anjali, bordering the Caspian Sea, shortly after the match.



Iranian Human Rights (IHR), a Norwegian-based human rights group, told The Guardian that "after the Iranian national team lost to the United States, security forces directly aimed at him (the desert) and shot him in the head."



According to the IHR, a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed at the hands of Iranian security forces in anti-government protests that spread across the country in the wake of the sudden death of Mahsa Amini in September after being taken by police for violating the dress code, with her hair showing through her hijab. 448 people, including 60 children and 29 women.



The Center for Iranian Human Rights (CHRI), a human rights group based in New York, USA, also announced that Desert was killed by security forces while celebrating Iran's defeat.



The group also released a video showing mourners chanting "Death to the dictator" at a desert funeral in Tehran on the 30th.



The slogan is considered one of the slogans of Iranian anti-government protesters targeting Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei.



Coincidentally, the Guardian reported that the deserter who died was an acquaintance of Iranian midfielder Side Ezatolich, who played in the match against the United States that day.



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Ezatolihi, who is from Bandar Anjali like a desert, expressed his grief by introducing on his Instagram that he played with Desert in a youth soccer team as a child.



He posted a picture of himself and the little players wearing uniforms and shoulder to shoulder, saying, "My heart breaks at the heartbreaking news of last night that you lost."



Without mentioning the circumstances of his friend's death, he indignantly said, "One day the mask will come off and the truth will come out. There is no reason for our young people and our country to suffer like this."



After losing the game against the United States, Ezatolich sat down on the field and looked devastated, and an American player approached and comforted him, drawing attention.



After the Iranian national team was defeated by the United States on this day, Iranian anti-government protesters set off firecrackers and honked car horns in various places, including Bandar Anjali, the capital Tehran, and Sakez, northern Kurdistan, the starting point of the spread of the 'hijab protest'. The video has spread online.



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Many Iranians are refusing to support the Iranian team at the World Cup, seeing the Iranian national team as representing the Iranian regime.



The game between the US and Iran, political rivals, was played in a strict atmosphere, with police officers deployed in addition to regular security personnel at the Assumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar.



Among the Iranian cheerleaders, 'Women Life Freedom', a representative slogan of the anti-government protests taking place in Iran, erupted, and a situation where they were stopped by officials after holding a picket in the name of 'Mahsa Amini' The back was also sighted, the BBC said.



(Photo = Ezatolihi Instagram capture, Kabe Goraishi Twitter account capture, Yonhap News)