{"id":40532,"date":"2026-06-03T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/irans-national-football-team-receives-mexican-visas-before-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:17:15","slug":"irans-national-football-team-receives-mexican-visas-before-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/irans-national-football-team-receives-mexican-visas-before-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s national football team receives Mexican visas before the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/thumbs_b_c_0348612fdcfdb8630aa0d15b75a0e8f8.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Iranian national soccer players have received Mexican visas ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by state broadcaster IRIB, Iran&#8217;s ambassador to Turkey, Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh, said the visas were issued after consultations with the Mexican Embassy in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visas for the Iranian national team players were issued within 48 hours, without the need to players to appear in person and without fingerprinting at the Mexican Embassy,&#8221; Habibollahzadeh said.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes a day after a senior Iranian soccer official said the federation expects visas to be issued by Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect visas for the Iranian national team players to be issued tonight or tomorrow morning,&#8221; spokesman Amir Mehdi Alavi told state media. of the Iran Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Iranian national team delegation is expected to leave on June 6 for the Mexican city of Tijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The visa issue had emerged as one of Iran&#8217;s main concerns ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Iran recently moved pre-World Cup training camp from the United States in Mexico, where the team is expected to stay before traveling to the tournament matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian international has been holding a training camp in the Turkish resort city of Antalya since May 19 as part of preparations for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian national soccer players have received Mexican visas ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, reports Anadolu. As reported by state broadcaster IRIB, Iran&#8217;s ambassador to Turkey, Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh, said the visas were issued after consultations with the Mexican Embassy in Ankara. &#8220;Visas for the Iranian national team players were issued within 48 hours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-40532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40534,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40532\/revisions\/40534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}