Iran gamers pose previous to the AFC Girls’s Asian Cup Group A match between Iran and Philippines at Gold Coast Stadium on the Gold Coast, Australia, March 8, 2026. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP Picture/through Reuters
Three of the 5 gamers from the Iran girls’s soccer group, who had tried to hunt asylum earlier this week whereas the group was in Australia, have elected to return residence, The Australian newspaper reported Saturday.
The Iranian group was in Australia for the Girls’s Asian Cup when the struggle between Iran, Israel and the Unites States started. 5 gamers left the group and got humanitarian visas in Australia.
Australia’s House Affairs division gave the three gamers requesting a return residence a number of probabilities to rethink earlier than their request was honored.
“Whereas the Australian authorities can be sure that alternatives are supplied and communicated, we can’t take away the context during which the gamers are making these extremely troublesome selections,” House Affairs Minister Tony Burke stated, in keeping with the Australian. “The Australian authorities has carried out every part we might to make certain these girls have been supplied with the prospect for a protected future in Australia.”
Iran’s girls’s group began play within the Girls’s Asian Cup simply after the struggle of their residence nation began. The group misplaced all three video games it performed and have been eradicated from the occasion.
Revealed – March 15, 2026 05:21 am IST