{"id":195413,"date":"2025-12-04T01:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=195413"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:16:04","slug":"iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=195413","title":{"rendered":"Iran boycotting 2026 World Cup draw citing visa restrictions for soccer officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, United Arab Emirates AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 \u00a0Iran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, DC next week because the US denied visas to members of its delegation, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday. The agency quoted Iranian soccer federation spokesman Amir-Mahdi Alavi as saying that officials faced visa obstacles \u2026<br \/>\nThe post Iran boycotting 2026 World Cup draw citing visa restrictions for soccer officials appeared first on Egypt Independent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, United Arab Emirates AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 \u00a0Iran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials.jpg",860,574,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials-768x513.jpg",640,428,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials.jpg",860,574,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials.jpg",860,574,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials.jpg",860,574,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials-825x574.jpg",825,574,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195413-iran-boycotting-2026-world-cup-draw-citing-visa-restrictions-for-soccer-officials-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}