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Australia granted humanitarian visas to five members of Iran's women's national football team after the players refused to sing their national anthem at the AFC Women's Asian Cup and were branded "wartime traitors" by Iranian state media. The dramatic asylum case unfolded against the backdrop of the ongoing US-Israeli military strikes on Iran, international pressure from President Trump, and a long history of Iranian women athletes fleeing persecution by the Islamic Republic.