{"id":343262,"date":"2026-03-17T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/343262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:38:10","slug":"irans-world-cup-hopes-not-over-yet-as-afc-chief-insists-withdrawal-is-just-talk-amid-usa-israel-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/343262\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s World Cup hopes not over yet as AFC chief insists withdrawal is just talk amid USA &#038; Israel conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Windsor John, the general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), has confirmed that Iran remain on track to compete in the World Cup being hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The official addressed the mounting uncertainty that has surrounded the team\u2019s involvement due to the volatile geopolitical landscape, even though Iran&#8217;s sports minister has already ruled out competing in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windsor John, the general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), has confirmed that Iran remain on track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,87,46,105,6866],"class_list":["post-343262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}