{"id":880688,"date":"2025-12-26T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/visa-dispute-threatens-irans-participation-in-the-world-cup-draw\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:20:02","slug":"visa-dispute-threatens-irans-participation-in-the-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/visa-dispute-threatens-irans-participation-in-the-world-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa dispute threatens Iran\u2019s participation in the World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Graham \u00a0 Iran\u2019s national federation has indicated it may refuse to take part in Friday\u2019s 2026 World Cup draw in the United States due to a shortage of visas allotted to its officials. The Tehran Times reported that American authorities approved only four permits, none of which were granted to federation president Mehdi [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfootballfacts.com\/articles\/visa-dispute-threatens-irans-participation-in-the-world-cup-draw\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Sharie Lupo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Graham \u00a0 Iran\u2019s national federation has indicated it may refuse to take part in Friday\u2019s 2026 World Cup draw in the United States due to a shortage of visas allotted to its officials. The Tehran Times reported that American authorities approved only four permits, none of which were granted to federation president Mehdi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3986,192,24351],"tags":[5887,6491],"class_list":{"0":"post-880688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dispute","8":"category-sports","9":"category-threatens","10":"tag-dispute","11":"tag-threatens"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}