{"id":55025,"date":"2026-06-19T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55025"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:27:22","slug":"ffiri-to-launch-complaint-to-fifa-over-us-world-cup-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/06\/19\/ffiri-to-launch-complaint-to-fifa-over-us-world-cup-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI to launch complaint to FIFA over US World Cup restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football federation is set to lodge an official complaint with FIFA over travel restrictions that the country\u2019s soccer team are facing at the 2026 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amir Ghalenoei, the head coach of Iran\u2019s team, has said his players are \u201cthe most oppressed\u201d at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are allowed to fly into the U.S. one day before their matches, and must leave the country on the same day under the conditions of their visas.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Football Federation of Iran (FFIRI) said: \u201cThe football federation of Iran believes that such restrictions are inconsistent with the principle of providing equal conditions for all participating teams and may negatively affect teams\u2019 preparation processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the federation will formally express its dissatisfaction and lodge an official complaint with FIFA through the appropriate channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran are scheduled to play Belgium on Sunday in Group G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football federation is set to lodge an official complaint with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":84,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55025","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=55025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55027,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55025\/revisions\/55027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}