This is verified—Iran's men's soccer team did hold children's backpacks during their national anthem before a friendly match against Nigeria on March 27, 2026. The tribute honored victims killed in an airstrike on a girls' school in Minab on February 28, 2026, which destroyed the Shajareh Tayyebeh school and killed more than 100 people, most of them children. The post's emotional tone matches the gravity of the actual event—a meaningful symbolic gesture of mourning.