{"id":69144,"date":"2026-03-17T04:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-say-they-are-negotiating-with-fifa-to-move-their-world-cup-games-to-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:57:52","slug":"iran-say-they-are-negotiating-with-fifa-to-move-their-world-cup-games-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-say-they-are-negotiating-with-fifa-to-move-their-world-cup-games-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran say they are negotiating with Fifa to move their World Cup games to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Iran are due to play all three group games in the US<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Trump said Iran should not play for their \u2018life and safety\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran\u2019s football federation has said it is in discussions with Fifa about moving the team\u2019s World Cup matches to Mexico from the United States owing to concerns about the safety of their players.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s participation was thrown into doubt after the US launched joint airstrikes at the country with Israel. Donald Trump said last week that Iran were welcome to participate but suggested it may not be appropriate for them to play in the US \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/12\/donald-trump-iran-status-world-cup\">for their own life and safety<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/17\/iran-negotiating-fifa-move-world-cup-games-to-mexico-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran are due to play all three group games in the US Trump said Iran should not play for their \u2018life and safety\u2019 Iran\u2019s football federation has said it is in discussions with Fifa about moving the team\u2019s World Cup matches to Mexico from the United States owing to concerns about the safety of their &#8230; <a title=\"Iran say they are negotiating with Fifa to move their World Cup games to Mexico\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/iran-say-they-are-negotiating-with-fifa-to-move-their-world-cup-games-to-mexico\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iran say they are negotiating with Fifa to move their World Cup games to Mexico\">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-69144","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\/69144","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=69144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}