{"id":55443,"date":"2026-10-05T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55443"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:08:00","slug":"iran-to-participate-at-basra-four-nation-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/10\/05\/iran-to-participate-at-basra-four-nation-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to participate at Basra four-nation tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BASRA, <strong>Iran national football team will participate at the Basra four-nation tournament in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event, scheduled for Nov. 9 to 17, features Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is part of the preparations for the participating national teams ahead of 2027 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is expected to provide an important opportunity for coaches to test player readiness and assess their levels ahead of official competitions, as the date for continental commitments approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will start the event with a match against Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn in Group C along China, Kyrgyzstan and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BASRA, Iran national football team will participate at the Basra four-nation tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55443","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":104,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55443","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=55443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55445,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55443\/revisions\/55445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}