Members of the Iranian women's soccer team were seen arriving at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on Monday, ahead of their return to Iran – which comes as a fifth member of the team has withdrawn her request for asylum in Australia and decided to return home to Iran. Shiva Amini, an exiled Iranian former soccer player, claimed the players chose to go home following “intense and systemic pressure on the players’ families” from Iran’s Football Federation. “Several of the players decided to go back because the threats against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless,” she wrote on X on Sunday.