Iran has slammed the United States over what it called \u201cdiscriminatory treatment\u201d in not granting visas for some members of the Iranian World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
The United States has reportedly refused entry to the team manager, representatives from the Foreign Ministry and the security department and the team\u2019s press officer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do you not say that visas were denied to a large portion of the managerial and executive staff, technical advisers, and others who are an integral part of any national football team?\u201d the Iranian embassy in Turkey said in a post on X, referring to an earlier announcement by US envoy Tom Barrack that visas had been granted to players.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have now escalated the deliberate and discriminatory treatment against Iran\u2019s national football team to its highest level,\u201d the embassy added.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Barrack praised the US embassy in Ankara over its \u201cwork processing visas for Iran\u2019s national football team\u201d after the head of the Iranian football federation, Mehdi Taj, said on the same day the Iranian delegation submitted passports for visas.<\/p>\n
But reports on Saturday from the Iranian media, including sports media Varzesh3, said members of the delegation, including Taj, along with executive members and analysts, have not been granted visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has slammed the United States over what it called \u201cdiscriminatory treatment\u201d in not granting visas for some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[66674,5888,64,63,2071,5579,596,5575,50895,481,2184,1736,5142,85,77860,348606,940,1055,21418],"class_list":["post-719028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ankara","tag-arizona","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belgium","tag-egypt","tag-football","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-los-angeles","tag-mexico","tag-new-zealand","tag-seattle","tag-sports","tag-tijuana","tag-tom-barrack","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}