Iran’s World Cup Ambitions Clash with War Shadows Amid High-Stakes Infantino Talks

Iran's World Cup Ambitions Clash with War Shadows Amid High-Stakes Infantino Talks

Iranian soccer had a good week on its troubled path to playing World Cup games in the United States in June.

A first face-to-face meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino since the U.S. and Israel started a war against Iran on Feb. 28 made genuine progress in soccer diplomacy at the end of a fraught month.

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The Iranian soccer federation’s upbeat readout of the meeting in Turkey made no mention of moving World Cup games to Mexico — a subject Infantino has repeatedly shut down for the past two weeks.

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