TEHRAN – With the Ottawa 2026 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships set to begin on Wednesday, visas for two members of Iran\u2019s coaching staff have yet to be issued, raising the possibility that Iran could withdraw from the competition.<\/p>\n
The 15th edition of the Championship will be held in Canada from Sept. 9 to 19.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Iran are one of 16 teams participating in the tournament and have been drawn into Group D, where they will face Morocco, Germany and host nation Canada.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cCanada, which is hosting the World Championship, has issued visas for the players, but the visas for the head coach and assistant coach have not yet been issued, and we are running out of time. I hope this issue is resolved soon so that, given the limited time remaining, we can take part in the competition,\u201d Iran head coach Behrouz Soltani said.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIf our visas are issued, we will participate in the tournament. Otherwise, there is a possibility that we could miss the World Championship. I believe our goal is to achieve the best possible results in this competition, but such an issue could disrupt the process and preparations we have planned,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cWe had a good training camp in Turkey, and the visa application process was also carried out properly and carefully. Given that embassies are closed on Saturday and Sunday, and the competition begins on Wednesday, I hope this issue will be resolved as soon as possible so that we can travel to the tournament with a well-prepared team within the remaining time,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN – With the Ottawa 2026 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships set to begin on Wednesday, visas for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-880706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880706","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=880706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}