{"id":68019,"date":"2026-03-04T06:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/donald-trump-really-does-not-care-if-iran-play-at-world-cup-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:55:19","slug":"donald-trump-really-does-not-care-if-iran-play-at-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/donald-trump-really-does-not-care-if-iran-play-at-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump \u2018really does not care\u2019 if Iran play at World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Iran was only country missing from Fifa planning summit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US and Israel began attacking Iranian targets on Saturday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has said he does not care whether Iran participate in this summer\u2019s World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada. The US and Israel began attacking targets in the country on Saturday, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">conflict in the Middle East<\/a> since spreading to the wider region.<\/p>\n<p>US president Trump told Politico: \u201cI really don\u2019t care. I think Iran is a very badly defeated country. They\u2019re running on fumes.\u201d Iran was the only nation missing from a Fifa planning summit for World Cup participants held this week in Atlanta, deepening questions over whether the country\u2019s team will compete on US soil this summer amid an escalating regional war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/04\/donald-trump-really-does-not-care-if-iran-play-at-football-world-cup-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran was only country missing from Fifa planning summit US and Israel began attacking Iranian targets on Saturday Donald Trump has said he does not care whether Iran participate in this summer\u2019s World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada. The US and Israel began attacking targets in the &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump \u2018really does not care\u2019 if Iran play at World Cup 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/donald-trump-really-does-not-care-if-iran-play-at-world-cup-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump \u2018really does not care\u2019 if Iran play at World Cup 2026\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}