{"id":43273,"date":"2026-03-11T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=43273"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:00:51","slug":"iran-to-boycott-2026-world-cup-as-sports-minister-issues-new-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=43273","title":{"rendered":"Iran &#8216;to boycott 2026 World Cup&#8217; as sports minister issues new statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iran\u2019s sports minister has reportedly shed new light on whether the nation will compete in the upcoming FIFA World Cup amid conflict between the US, Israel and Iran in the Middle East.On 28 February, a joint US-Israeli strike killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who has since been succeeded by his son Mojtaba.Following the attack on Iran, the nation responded by firing retaliatory strikes towards neighbouring nations Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Cyprus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel has also engaged in conflict with the Iranian-backed Shia militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.Thousands of fatalities have been reported, with thousands more displaced across the region following the outbreak of the conflict.Sport has also been heavily impacted, with England Lions and England Women\u2019s tours of the UAE cancelled.Concerns remain over whether April\u2019s Bahrain and Saudi Arabian F1 events will take place, while seven members \u2013 six players and a member of the support staff \u2013 of Iran\u2019s women\u2019s team have been granted Australian visas following their appearance in the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s sports minister has reportedly shed new light on whether the nation will compete in the upcoming FIFA World Cup amid conflict between the US, Israel and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":98,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43275,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273\/revisions\/43275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}