Penny Wong, the Australian Foreign Minister, said that the Iranian national team’s players not singing the anthem was a courageous act.
Penny Wong, the Australian Foreign Minister, while announcing the re-summoning of the Iranian chargé d’affaires, said that people are closely following the events in Iran and I think we were all affected by the image of the Iranian football team last night, who remained silent during the playing of the Islamic Republic’s anthem, and this was a courageous act.