Iran has entered the World Cup under the shadow of war in the Middle East but images shared online purportedly showing Iranian players praying on the football pitch are AI-generated. The pictures contain visual inconsistencies indicative of synthetic content and were flagged as m ade with OpenAI tools.

Only one game remains for Iran in this year's World Cup group stage as the team looks to advance to the knockout round with a victory over Egypt on June 26 at Lumen Field in Seattle. Despite not winning a game thus far in the group stage,

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Iraq striker Aymen Hussein was delayed on the way to his first World Cup. He still made the best of his tournament debut. Earlier this month, it wasn’t clear whether Hussein would be able to