Iranian national soccer team arrives wearing pins commemorating deadly strike on school

Iran's World Cup team wore lapel pins commemorating the victims of the missile strike on an elementary school at the beginning of the U.S. military conflict against Iran.

Players wore gold-colored pins with the number "168" on their jackets when they touched down in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, June 7. The number memorializes the total number of people, mostly girls, who were killed by a strike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28.

Players memorialized the victims in a warmup game in Türkiye, holding pink and purple school backpacks as their national anthem played.

Neither Israel nor the United States have accepted responsibility for the incident, with American officials saying they are investigating the incident.

Iran is scheduled to play their first game in Los Angeles, against New Zealand on June 15.

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