Good morning. Welcome, Axios today. It's Tuesday, November 29th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

what we're watching today. The world's largest active volcano, Hawaii's Manoloa, is erupting.

Plus, President Biden looks to Congress to avert a rail strike. But first, protest and upsets

at the World Cup. That's today's one big thing.

This afternoon, the United States will either win our World Cup game against Iran or go home.

The stakes are high and so is tension around the game. Iran State media has called for the US to be

kicked out of the World Cup. After the US changed the Iranian flag on its social media platform to

show support for protesters there. And the Iranian soccer team may be facing their own repercussions

back home for their support of the protesters. Axios's Jeff Tracy is covering the tournament

in here to catch us up quick. Hey, Jeff. Hey, Nyla. Yeah. Thanks for having me on it.

So if all of that wasn't enough, Jeff CNN's reporting that families of Iran's team have been

threatened with imprisonment in torture. If the players failed to quote, behave at today's game,

what can we expect from the beginning of this game? You know, we've already seen Iranian players

protest during this very World Cup, you know, standing up for those protesters at home. They

refuse to sing their national anthem before their opener against England last week. And numerous

players have commented saying they stand beside those back at home. Again, we don't know what we're

going to see at this 11th hour change if Iranian players will quote, behave, you know, as the

government hopes they will. It's going to be very, very intriguing to watch. And that's just the

off-field stuff. Of course, there's pretty big soccer game going on as well. Yeah, what about

the actual actual game? How evenly matched are these teams? Pretty evenly matched. This group B is

one of the quote groups of death, really hard one to get out of, you know, with two of three matches

down now in the group stage. All four teams are still alive. And this particular game is just a

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