{"id":38894,"date":"2020-03-12T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38894"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:39:07","slug":"iran-football-federations-elections-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/iran-football-federations-elections-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran football federation\u2019s elections deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) elective General Assembly was postponed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA had already ordered FFIRI to postpone the elections until the national governing body amends its current statutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World football\u2019s governing body had sent a letter to the Iranian federation on Feb. 24, stressing that the event should be delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elections were scheduled for March 15 (Sunday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FFIRI provided some documents and appealed to FIFA so that the General Assembly could be held as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documents were not enough and FIFA asked FFIRI officials once again to revise the statutes before holding the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA had hinted that the current version of the FFIRI statutes contains several particularly problematic provisions such as government interference in the FFIRI elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Iran\u2019s Minister of Sport and Youth Masoud Soltanifar had expressed hope that FIFA would agree with FFIRI elections to be held on the scheduled time because the country faces a national emergency due to coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) elective General Assembly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":553,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38895,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38894\/revisions\/38895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}