{"id":37511,"date":"2026-06-06T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/irans-football-team-granted-visas-to-enter-u-s\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:35:58","slug":"irans-football-team-granted-visas-to-enter-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irans-football-team-granted-visas-to-enter-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#039;s football team granted visas to enter U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6050513.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Iran&#8217;s football team have been granted visas to enter the U.S. ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The approval comes just 10 days before the team&#8217;s opening fixture against New Zealand, which will be held in Los Angeles on 15 June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The visas necessary for Iran to compete in the World Cup, including for athletes and necessary support staff, have been issued,&#8221; an officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football federation is yet to publicly comment on the visa approvals.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA World Cup 2026 is set to kick off on 11 June, and will be hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In late May, Iran moved its training base to Mexico from Tucson, Arizona, which Mehdi Taj, president of Iran&#8217;s soccer federation, said was due to visa problems.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian media have reported that some members of the Iran team&#8217;s technical and administrative staff had not received a visa to enter the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/527039\/Iran-s-football-team-granted-visas-to-enter-U-S\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Iran&#8217;s football team have been granted visas to enter the U.S. ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The approval comes just 10 days before the team&#8217;s opening fixture against New Zealand, which will be held in Los Angeles on 15 June. &#8220;The visas necessary for Iran to compete in the World Cup, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}