This post was originally published on Politico.
LOS ANGELES — Iran’s players arrived back in the United States yesterday to play Belgium. For supporters of Team Melli, a cat-and-mouse game with FIFA over political expression continues.
Soccer’s global governing body has included Iran’s pre-revolutionary Lion and Sun flag — a favorite symbol of those protesting the régime in Tehran — on its list of “materials, including but not limited to banners, flags, fliers, apparel and other paraphernalia, that are of a political, offensive and/or discriminatory nature” banned under its stadium code of conduct.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court court judge upheld the ban last week
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