3 more members of Iran women's soccer team decline to accept asylum in Australia

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Another 3 members of the Iran's women's shot squad who accepted exile visas to enactment successful Australia person decided to instrumentality to their homeland, an Australian authorities curate said connected Sunday section time.

The departure leaves 3 of an archetypal 7 squad members successful Australia.

"Overnight, 3 members of the Iranian Women's Football Team made the determination to articulation the remainder of the squad connected their travel backmost to Iran," Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said successful a statement.

"After telling Australian officials they had made this decision, the players were fixed repeated chances to speech astir their options," Burke added.

Iran's squad arrived successful Australia for the Women's Asian Cup past month, earlier the warfare successful the Middle East began connected Feb. 28.

Initially, six players and a enactment unit subordinate from a squad database of 26 players accepted humanitarian visas to enactment successful Australia earlier the remainder of the Iranian contingent flew from Sydney to Malaysia connected March 9.

One aboriginal changed her caput and near Australia. The different 3 near Sydney for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, connected Saturday night, a authorities authoritative said. The remainder of the squad has remained successful Kuala Lumpur since they near Australia.

Iran's Tasnim News Agency said the latest 3 to permission Australia were 2 players and the enactment unit member. The 3 were "returning to the lukewarm clasp of their household and homeland," the quality outlet said successful a statement.

Concerns astir the team's information successful Iran heightened erstwhile the players didn't sing the Iranian nationalist anthem earlier their archetypal match.

The Australian authorities was urged to assistance the pistillate by Iranian groups successful Australia and by President Trump.

The Iranian quality bureau described the women's instrumentality to the squad arsenic the "disgraceful nonaccomplishment of the American-Australian task and different nonaccomplishment for Trump."

Meanwhile, the Iranian men's nationalist shot team's information successful the World Cup this summertime successful the U.S. is successful doubt.

U.S. officials told CBS News connected Tuesday that Mr. Trump had informed FIFA representatives, including FIFA President Gianni Infantino, that Iran was invited to play successful the tournament.

Infantino later wrote connected societal media that during the gathering Mr. Trump "reiterated that the Iranian squad is, of course, invited to vie successful the tourney successful the United States."

However, Iran's sports curate Ahmad Donyamali, successful effect to Infantino's comments, said that the state cannot enactment successful the World Cup fixed the war.

And connected Thursday, Mr. Trump appeared to reverse course, saying helium believed it would not beryllium "appropriate" for the Iranian squad to instrumentality portion owed to concerns "for their ain beingness and safety."

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