The bad blood between the two nations reached boiling point when Mullin revealed his delight at Iran’s failure to progress. The US official had stated: “I\u2019m just glad they\u2019re [Iran] done, and they\u2019re not coming back. I was so happy when we were able to pull their visas and said they could leave the US soil, and I might\u2019ve sung a song or two or maybe even danced a happy dance. I\u2019m very happy they\u2019re going back because there wasn\u2019t a single team that we dealt with more than them.”<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s response was swift and uncompromising, stating: “Iranians are used to the mistreatment and lies of US officials, so no one in Iran is surprised by these hostile remarks.<\/p>\n
“These remarks once again demonstrate that US officials have no commitment to international law or the principles expected of a host nation capable of organising a global sporting event. The fact that he openly celebrates Iran\u2019s elimination says far more about him than it does about our team.”<\/p>\n
The federation also highlighted the “inhumane and unprofessional treatment” the team faced, including being forced to relocate their base<\/a> camp from Arizona to Mexico and the denial of visas<\/a> for 11 staff members, including federation president Mehdi Taj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bad blood between the two nations reached boiling point when Mullin revealed his delight at Iran’s failure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15311,85,87,46,105,2586,174803,6866],"class_list":["post-529317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-belgium","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-usa-vs-belgium","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529317","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=529317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}