Fifa President Gianni Infantino reiterated that Iran will play their World Cup games in the United States as scheduled as football\u2019s power-brokers met in Vancouver on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s participation at this year\u2019s World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States has been shrouded in uncertainty since the eruption of war in the Middle East in February following strikes by the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n
Infantino, who has repeatedly stated that Iran will be at the World Cup, underscored that stance at the start of his address to delegates as Fifa\u2019s 76th Congress got under way in western Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me start by the outset, confirming straightaway that of course Iran will be participating at the Fifa World Cup 2026,\u201d Infantino said. \u201cAnd of course, Iran will play [in] the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Infantino\u2019s remarks drew swift support from close ally US President Donald Trump, who told reporters in the Oval Office he was \u201cOK\u201d with Iran\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, if Gianni said it, I\u2019m OK,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI think let \u2018em play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifa President Gianni Infantino reiterated that Iran will play their World Cup games in the United States as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10389,4150,20953,173275,245,197818,54,19712,8316,85,41602,87,53065,46,1326,47,1630,105,1032,33819],"class_list":["post-419805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afc","tag-african","tag-asian","tag-caf","tag-canada","tag-conmebol","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-il","tag-infantino","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-israel","tag-mexico","tag-middle-east","tag-new-zealand","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419805","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=419805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}