There had been hoax stories in which people had come forward claiming to be the child in the photograph.
Robin Hirori, a football fan from Sweden, says he was sent the above image by a Facebook profile claiming to be that of the boy's brother, and tweeted the image in response to the hoax stories.
Attempts by BuzzFeed News to contact the Facebook profile from which the photo was sent were unsuccessful, but the name being used by the profile was Hamayon Ahmadi.