{"id":69395,"date":"2026-03-19T04:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/iran-will-boycott-the-us-but-not-the-world-cup-countrys-football-head-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:55:52","slug":"iran-will-boycott-the-us-but-not-the-world-cup-countrys-football-head-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/iran-will-boycott-the-us-but-not-the-world-cup-countrys-football-head-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran will boycott the US but not the World Cup, country\u2019s football head says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Video released of federation president Mehdi Taj<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fifa has no plans to move Iran games to Mexico<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran will \u201cboycott the United States\u201d but \u201cnot the World Cup\u201d, the Iranian football federation president, Mehdi Taj, said in a video released by the Iranian press agency Fars.<\/p>\n<p>Iran are scheduled to play their group matches in the US in this summer\u2019s tournament. \u201cWe will be preparing for the World Cup,\u201d Taj said. \u201cWe will boycott the United States but not the the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/19\/iran-will-boycott-the-us-but-not-the-world-cup-football-federation-head\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video released of federation president Mehdi Taj Fifa has no plans to move Iran games to Mexico Iran will \u201cboycott the United States\u201d but \u201cnot the World Cup\u201d, the Iranian football federation president, Mehdi Taj, said in a video released by the Iranian press agency Fars. Iran are scheduled to play their group matches in &#8230; <a title=\"Iran will boycott the US but not the World Cup, country\u2019s football head says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/iran-will-boycott-the-us-but-not-the-world-cup-countrys-football-head-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iran will boycott the US but not the World Cup, country\u2019s football head says\">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-69395","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\/69395","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=69395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}