Women identifying as 'Pussy Riot' speak out at World Cup

US football fans celebrated their team's qualification for the knock-out stages of the 2022 FIFA World Cup after their national team beat Iran 1-0 to seal a place in the last 16, behind Group B winners England.

The Americans will play the Netherlands on Saturday with the chance to reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002.

Iran finished third with three points. The team has failed to advance in all six of its World Cup appearances.

At the end of the game a group of young women wearing colorful balaclavas who identified themselves as members of the Pussy Riot collective chanted "Women Life Freedom", the slogan of the protest movement in Iran, wearing shirts with names and ages of protesters killed in the demonstrations. One member Nika Nikulshina referred to both Iran and Russia as 'terrorist states'.

There was heightened tension surrounding the match because of the strained relations between the United States and Iran's Islamic government. Iran had famously upset the U.S. 2-1 in the 1998 tournament in France, eliminating the Americans.

Raucous Iranian fans with horns and drums in the crowd of 42,127 filled the lower bowl behind one goal at Al Thumama Stadium and were far louder than the red-white-and-blue U.S. supporters at the other end and behind the American bench.US football fans celebrated their team's qualification for the knock-out stages of the 2022 FIFA World Cup after their national team beat Iran 1-0 to seal a place in the last 16, behind Group B winners England.

The Americans will play the Netherlands on Saturday with the chance to reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002.

Iran finished third with three points. The team has failed to advance in all six of its World Cup appearances.

At the end of the game a group of young women wearing colorful balaclavas who identified themselves as members of the Pussy Riot collective chanted "Women Life Freedom", the slogan of the protest movement in Iran, wearing shirts with names and ages of protesters killed in the demonstrations. One member Nika Nikulshina referred to both Iran and Russia as 'terrorist states'.

There was heightened tension surrounding the match because of the strained relations between the United States and Iran's Islamic government. Iran had famously upset the U.S. 2-1 in the 1998 tournament in France, eliminating the Americans.

Raucous Iranian fans with horns and drums in the crowd of 42,127 filled the lower bowl behind one goal at Al Thumama Stadium and were far louder than the red-white-and-blue U.S. supporters at the other end and behind the American bench. No