{"id":49263,"date":"2023-07-01T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49263"},"modified":"2023-07-01T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:36:07","slug":"irans-football-chief-says-important-mou-to-be-signed-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/07\/01\/irans-football-chief-says-important-mou-to-be-signed-with-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s football chief says &#8220;important&#8221; MoU to be signed with Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TheStar.com.my &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>A senior Iranian sports official said the country&#8217;s football federation will sign an &#8220;important&#8221; memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its Saudi Arabian counterpart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President of Iran&#8217;s Football Federation Mehdi Taj made the remarks at a ceremony in Tehran on Thursday, according to a statement published on the federation&#8217;s website on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Iran and Saudi Arabia are two major football powers in Asia and such cooperation can have &#8220;considerable&#8221; benefits for both sides, without elaborating further on the MoU.<\/p>\n<p>Taj said Iran has also signed an MoU with Iraq, under which their football teams can hold more training camps in the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>On April 6, Iran and Saudi Arabia officially announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran in 2016 in response to the attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed a Shiite cleric.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the severance of the relations, matches between the two countries&#8217; teams have been held in a neutral country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheStar.com.my &#8211; TEHRAN, A senior Iranian sports official said the country&#8217;s football federation will sign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":728,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263","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=49263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49265,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263\/revisions\/49265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}