Chilling footage has emerged showing Iranian team officials racing through a Gold Coast hotel stairwell after discovering several members of the country’s women’s football team had fled in a bid to seek asylum in Australia.

The players were competing in the Women’s Asia Cup when five footballers slipped away from their hotel on Monday night, escaping through an underground car park.

Video shared online shows Iranian security agents and team officials running down a stairwell, apparently attempting to track the players down, while a supporter follows them filming the confrontation.

“This is Australia now, you are in Australia motherf*****, you are in Australia,” she says in the footage, repeatedly referring to them as IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps).

“You better run, we are gonna get you now, you better run, you have no rights here.”

The officials then retreat back up the stairwell as the woman continues shouting at them.

In a second clip posted online, the supporter said the group had realised players were attempting to escape.

“I’m here at the hotel and it looks like the IRGC figured out what we’re trying to do,” she said.

“I just chased some of the IRGC-aligned staff down the stairs it looks like a couple of the players were trying to get out and they found out about it.”

In total, six Iranian players and one team official have now remained in Australia after being granted asylum by the federal government.

On Tuesday, Mohaddeseh Zolfi and Zahra Soltan Meshkeh Kar accepted Australia’s offer of protection, joining teammates Zahra Sarbali, Mona Hamoudi, Zahra Ghanbari, Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramazani-Zadeh.

The rest of the Iranian team later departed Sydney for Malaysia.

Their departure was marked by further chaos outside the Gold Coast hotel, where protesters attempted to block the team bus as it prepared to leave.

Footage from the scene appeared to show some team members pulling a player by the arm and collar toward the vehicle as they boarded.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirmed on Wednesday that an additional two members of the Iranian delegation, a player and a support staff member, had been granted humanitarian visas.

Mr Burke said every member of the travelling squad was given a private opportunity to accept Australia’s offer before leaving the country.

“With the assistance of the Australian Federal Police, they were separated from the rest of the group and taken to a safe location,’’ he said.

“With the exception of a small number of people, where we had made the decision that we did not want to make a direct offer, all the players remaining and most of the support people were taken into interview rooms.

“They were given a choice in that situation. What we made sure of was there was no rushing. There was no pressure. Everything was about ensuring the dignity for those individuals to make a choice.”

After the flight carrying the remainder of the delegation had departed, Mr Burke said officials involved in the process had found the meetings deeply emotional.

“They were emotional meetings. They were emotional meetings for them and for the people from Home Affairs and Border Force who were meeting with them, I can’t begin to imagine what people have been weighing up,’’ he said.

“I reminded them that they should still be very proud of who we are as a country and their role as the face of Australia when people were being offered a choice.

“These individuals were meeting a government that said, the choice is up to you, and here is the opportunity if you want to take it, but the choice and the dignity of that decision is yours as Australians, we should be proud that we’re that sort of country.”

Mr Burke said those who accepted the offer were now on humanitarian visas and would soon begin the process toward permanent residency.

“For everybody who was given that choice, I’m really glad we did that, and for the seven people who took up that offer, we as a nation, are lucky that you chose us, and I think they are only just beginning to realise just how welcome they are here in Australia.”

Meanwhile, senior Iranian football and government officials have accused Australia of effectively detaining the players.

Football Federation chief Mehdi Taj claimed police intervened after the match.

“After the game, unfortunately, the Australian police came and intervened, removing one or two of the players from the hotel, according to the news we have,” he told Iran’s Tasnim News Agency.

“They martyred our girls in Minab, 160 of them, and in this incident they are taking our girls hostage. They did a terrible thing. Last night, some people came and lay down in front of the car they were driving to the airport.

“They completely blocked them at the gate and told everyone to become refugees.”

Police investigate alleged death threat by handler

It comes as police investigate allegations an Iranian team handler threatened activists on the Gold Coast during the Women’s Asia Cup tournament.

A complaint has been lodged with authorities about regime-linked official Mohammad Salari, who travelled to Australia with the Iranian women’s national team as part of the delegation.

Members of Australia’s Iranian community allege Mr Salari made threatening remarks to activists during the tournament, including warning one community member not to attend matches involving the Iranian team.

According to The Australian, the complaint is that he allegedly told one activist: “If you care about your lives in Australia, don’t come here. I can find you. I have people everywhere,” while making what witnesses described as a throat-slitting gesture.

The alleged threat is understood to have been raised directly with Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and passed on to police for investigation.

Witnesses also claim Mr Salari confronted supporters at a match on the Gold Coast and appeared to photograph people connected to anti-regime activism, raising concerns about their safety and the safety of family members still living in Iran.

Police are now examining the allegations as part of an ongoing investigation.

“The Queensland Police Service (QPS) are aware of an incident that occurred at Cbus Stadium on 5 March,” a spokesperson told The Nightly.

“A complaint was received, and investigations are continuing”

Mr Salari was seen accompanying players throughout the tournament, including at matches on the Gold Coast and at team hotels, where officials closely monitored members of the squad.

He was also among the Iranian delegation filmed rushing through a stairwell at the Royal Pines Resort after several players fled the hotel on Monday night in a bid to seek asylum in Australia.