{"id":235270,"date":"2026-06-25T03:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235270"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:54:55","slug":"for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235270","title":{"rendered":"For Iran\u2019s diaspora, a tough World Cup call: To support the national team or protest \u2013 or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s team faces a hostile reception from the US government and some of its brethren in the diaspora. Yet others hope the event will trump politics \u2014 for now&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-284277\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s team faces a hostile reception from the US government and some of its brethren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both.jpg",1356,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-300x148.jpg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-768x378.jpg",640,315,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-1024x504.jpg",640,315,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both.jpg",1356,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both.jpg",1356,668,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-1024x504.jpg",1024,504,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235270-for-irans-diaspora-a-tough-world-cup-call-to-support-the-national-team-or-protest-or-both-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=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235270","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=235270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}