The Iranian team snatched a 2-2 draw from its New Zealand counterpart. The first match that brought together the Mullahs’ team with New Zealand began at the “Soviet Stadium” in Los Angeles, amidst the demonstrations opposing the Iranian regime. The demonstrators waved the old Iranian flag dating back to before the 1979 revolution, with a lion and a sun in the center, and beat drums and chanted against “Tem Milli,” whom they see as a propaganda tool for Tehran.