{"id":471827,"date":"2026-06-02T05:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/471827\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:26:13","slug":"world-cup-preview-iran-enters-tournament-under-the-shadow-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/471827\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup preview: Iran enters tournament under the shadow of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">An uneasy American welcome complicates Tehran&#8217;s journey in the competition<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260529 Iran soccer\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Iranian players hold pictures of damaged buildings and young victims as they line up before their match against Costa Rica in Antalya, Turkey, on March 31. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">LONDON &#8212; The answer to the question of whether Asia&#8217;s second-highest ranked nation will compete at all at the World Cup will be answered in Los Angeles on June 15, when Iran is scheduled to face New Zealand in its opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports An uneasy American welcome complicates Tehran&#8217;s journey in the competition Iranian players hold pictures of damaged buildings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41456,97823,85,87,46,19382,30476,105,150141,2201,2711],"class_list":["post-471827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-enters","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-preview","tag-shadow","tag-sports","tag-tournament","tag-war","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471827","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=471827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}