Iran want USA banned over World Cup flag

Iran’s football federation demanded their US opponents receive a 10-game ban for “offending the dignity” of their country, Report informs via The Guardian.

The Iran-US match is due on November 29.

The extraordinary request came after the US Soccer Federation displayed Iran’s national flag on social media, in a now-deleted graphic, without the emblem of the Islamic Republic – in support of protesters in Iran before the nations’ Group B match on Tuesday.

The US explained that it had decided to forgo the official flag on social media accounts to show “support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights”.