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		</div><p>Voria Ghafouri, a former member of the Iran national football team, has been arrested for criticising the government, according to reports from state-linked media.</p>
<p>The semi-official Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported om Thursday that he was arrested for insulting the national team, who are currently playing in the World Cup, and criticising the government.</p>
<p>Ghafouri, who was not chosen to go to the World Cup, has been an outspoken critic of Iranian authorities and policies throughout his career.</p>
<p>Iran has been convulsed by anti-government protests for more than two months, the biggest challenge to its Islamic theocracy in more than a decade.</p>
<p>The reports of his arrest came ahead of Friday’s World Cup match between Iran and Wales.</p>
<p>At Iran’s opening match against England, the members of the Iranian team declined to sing along to the national anthem and some fans protested during the match.</p>
<p>The protests were ignited by the death of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the country’s morality police in September.</p>
<p>They rapidly escalated into nationwide demonstrations calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>The western Kurdish region of the country has seen particularly intense protests and a deadly crackdown by security forces.</p>
<p>Ghafouri, who is also a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, has criticised government policies in the past. Officials have not said whether that was a factor in not choosing him for the national team.</p>
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