There are concerns for the safety of Iran's female footballers after they were condemned on Iranian state TV as wartime traitors for not singing the national anthem before their first game.
A coalition of Iranian Kurdish groups who oppose the regime say they are preparing to enter the war and have amassed thousands of fighters near the border with Iraq.
Finding criticism of the Islamist militant group and political party — an organisation once seemingly untouchable — is much easier than it used to be on the streets of Beirut.
