{"id":68677,"date":"2026-03-11T03:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/infantino-insists-trump-has-assured-him-iran-are-welcome-to-play-at-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:55:51","slug":"infantino-insists-trump-has-assured-him-iran-are-welcome-to-play-at-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/infantino-insists-trump-has-assured-him-iran-are-welcome-to-play-at-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino insists Trump has assured him Iran are \u2018welcome\u2019 to play at 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fifa president posts message after meeting with Trump<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Iran due to play all three group matches in the US<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has said Iran are \u201cwelcome\u201d to play at the upcoming World Cup, despite the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa\u2019s president said that during a meeting with Trump to discuss preparations for the competition, \u201cwe also spoke about the current situation in Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/11\/donald-trump-iran-welcome-2026-world-cup-gianni-infantino\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa president posts message after meeting with Trump Iran due to play all three group matches in the US Donald Trump has said Iran are \u201cwelcome\u201d to play at the upcoming World Cup, despite the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Gianni Infantino. Fifa\u2019s president said that during a meeting with Trump to &#8230; <a title=\"Infantino insists Trump has assured him Iran are \u2018welcome\u2019 to play at 2026 World Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/infantino-insists-trump-has-assured-him-iran-are-welcome-to-play-at-2026-world-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Infantino insists Trump has assured him Iran are \u2018welcome\u2019 to play at 2026 World Cup\">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-68677","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\/68677","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=68677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}