Iran set off on World Cup journey with Persian carpets

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Tehran, June 4 (IANS) As Iranian football fans Tuesday bid farewell to their national football team for the upcoming World cup in Brazil, they lined up to take photos, **t with the players, but with two masterpiece Persian carpets. The carpets, according to Xinhua, tell about Iran's ambition in the upcoming World Cup matches: friendship first. One of them, framed into a tableau, says "I wish you all the luck in the world" in English right under a lifelike portrait of Lionel Messi, top star of Argentina, Iran's top opponent in the first round. Iran's national football team flew with the pair of carpets to Brazil on Tuesday.

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