{"id":53967,"date":"2025-10-14T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53967"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:40:59","slug":"iran-defeats-tanzania-in-friendly-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/iran-defeats-tanzania-in-friendly-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeats Tanzania in friendly [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national football team defeated Tanzania 2-0 in a friendly at Rashid Stadium in Dubai on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Mohebi was brought down inside the area, and Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh converted the ensuing penalty in the 17th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mohebi doubled the lead in the 26th minute when his shot was deflected by Tanzanian defender Ibrahim Hamad, making it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Alireza Jahanbakhsh scored from long range in the second half but his goal was ruled out due to Milad Mohammadi\u2019s handball.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had previously lost 2-1 to Russia on Friday in Volgograd.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, who have already secured a place in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, will also participate in a four-team tournament in November in Dubai, where Uzbekistan, Cape Verde, and Egypt have announced their readiness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran vs Tanzania | All Goals &amp; Highlights | International friendly match 14-10-2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RC27eukYGQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Iran&#8217;s national football team defeated Tanzania 2-0 in a friendly at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53967","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":1621,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967","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=53967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53969,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967\/revisions\/53969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}