{"id":3186,"date":"2026-04-01T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:02:12","slug":"fifa-president-gianni-infantino-has-confirmed-ihat-iran-will-participate-in-the-upcoming-fifa-world-cup-in-north-america-despite-on-going-gonflicts-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/fifa-president-gianni-infantino-has-confirmed-ihat-iran-will-participate-in-the-upcoming-fifa-world-cup-in-north-america-despite-on-going-gonflicts-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA President Gianni Infantino Has Confirmed  Iran Will Participate In The FIFA World Cup In North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amidst rising questions regarding Iran&#8217;s participation in the upcoming FIFA World Cup to be held in North America, FIFA President Gianni Infantino clarified in an interview today that Iran will participate in the tournament.<br>Despite the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the news of Iran&#8217;s participation has encouraged FIFA. Infantino stated that Iran is a very strong team, and having such a team compete in the World Cup is good news for football.<br>Furthermore, he mentioned two days ago that FIFA currently has no &#8220;Plan B&#8221; or alternative arrangements. The Iranian team will participate in the group-stage matches in America according to the pre-determined schedule. He shared that Iranian team will play in the World Cup; we want them to play. Therefore, there is no alternative plan at this stage.&#8221;<br>He concluded by noting that we live in a real world and, regardless of how complex the situation becomes, Iran will be able to play football in a beautiful environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst rising questions regarding Iran&#8217;s participation in the upcoming FIFA World Cup to be held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}