ISTANBUL, Turkey — Iranian international
footballer Majid Hosseini expressed solidarity Wednesday with the women-led
protests that erupted nearly two weeks ago, reposting a message calling on the
police to put down their guns.
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Hosseini, a defender who plays for
Turkey’s top
division side Kayserispor, reposted a cartoon on Instagram showing a woman with
flowing hair walking up to an anti-riot policeman and taking off his helmet.
“Put down your gun and let this murderous demon come
out of your body,” the woman tells the policeman in Farsi.
“If God gave life, why should you take it?”
Hosseini joins a growing list of Iranian footballers
and cultural figures, some based abroad, who are taking to social media to
condemn the deadly police crackdown.
Dozens of people have been killed since
demonstrations erupted when Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died
after being arrested in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic’s
strict rules on hijab headscarves and modest clothing.
Iran’s national football team is being dogged with
rumors of a split between players who support the protests and those still
echoing the criticism published in pro-government media.
Iran will be appearing at their sixth World Cup
finals in Qatar this year.
Hosseini, 26, has played for the national team since
2018, when he also joined Turkey’s top-tier side Trabzonspor, before moving to
Kayserispor last year.
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