{"id":70491,"date":"2026-03-31T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/infantino-says-iran-will-be-at-the-world-cup-despite-war-with-united-states\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:01:26","slug":"infantino-says-iran-will-be-at-the-world-cup-despite-war-with-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/infantino-says-iran-will-be-at-the-world-cup-despite-war-with-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino says Iran \u2018will be at the World Cup\u2019 despite war with United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fifa president made comments at Iran-Costa Rica game<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Infantino says Iran will play games in the US as scheduled<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Iran scheduled to open World Cup in LA on 15 June<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, told AFP on Tuesday that Iran \u201cwill be at the World Cup\u201d and will play their group matches in the United States as scheduled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/30\/trump-threatens-to-obliterate-irans-energy-grid-if-ceasefire-not-reached-shortly\">despite the Middle East war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran will be at the World Cup,\u201d Infantino said at half-time of Iran\u2019s friendly against Costa Rica in Turkey. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re here. We\u2019re delighted because they\u2019re a very, very strong team, I\u2019m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/31\/infantino-iran-world-cup-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa president made comments at Iran-Costa Rica game Infantino says Iran will play games in the US as scheduled Iran scheduled to open World Cup in LA on 15 June The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, told AFP on Tuesday that Iran \u201cwill be at the World Cup\u201d and will play their group matches in the &#8230; <a title=\"Infantino says Iran \u2018will be at the World Cup\u2019 despite war with United States\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/infantino-says-iran-will-be-at-the-world-cup-despite-war-with-united-states\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Infantino says Iran \u2018will be at the World Cup\u2019 despite war with United States\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70491","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=70491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}