دبیرکل فیفا: صحبت‌‎ها درباره ایران گمانه‌زنی است

دبیرکل فدراسیون جهانی فوتبال شایعات درباره انصراف ایران از جام جهانی ۲۰۲۶ را گمانه‌زنی خواند.

تصاویر آسیب‌ها به کاخ گلستان در حملات هوایی آمریکا و اسرائیل به تهران

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Iran soccer chief gives dire verdict on World Cup in USA as Donald Trump reveals timeline of military campaign

It comes as Donald Trump told the Daily Mail on Sunday in an exclusive interview that he views the military action in Iran to be as long as a four-week campaign.

'It's always been a four-week process,' the President said. 'We figured it will be four weeks or so. 

'It's always been about a four-week process so - as strong as it is, it's a big country, it'll take four weeks - or less.'

Iran have been drawn into Group G at the World Cup in June, and are scheduled to play New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles - a city with a large Iranian population - and Egypt in Seattle.

The United States is hosting the tournament with Canada and Mexico from June 11 until July 19. The vast majority of games are in the United States, however.

FIFA has said it is monitoring the situation, while Andrew Giuliani, director of the White House World Cup task force, said on X on Saturday: 'We'll deal with soccer games tomorrow -- tonight, we celebrate their opportunity for freedom.'

Iran's football preparations for the tournament will be affected as no matches will be played during the 40-day mourning period for the death of their leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in Saturday's attacks.

Fans from Iran were already banned from entering the U.S. in the first iteration of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration.

Only coaches and players from the team were set to be granted visa exemptions to enter the country and compete in the tournament. 

A look at some of the contenders to be Iran's supreme leader after the killing of Khamenei

Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment

Hassan Khomeini

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Ahmadinejad killed in strike on Tehran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran, was killed in US and Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iranian state media reported.

Earlier reports on Saturday said three of his bodyguards were killed when strikes hit near his home in Tehran’s Narmak district, but that the former president had survived.

Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013, winning elections as an outsider who promised to “bring oil money to people’s tables” and govern as “a man made from the people’s essence”.

His tenure was marked by confrontation with the West over Iran’s nuclear programme, economic mismanagement that deepened poverty despite soaring oil revenues, and an increasingly authoritarian response to dissent.

After leaving office, Ahmadinejad increasingly positioned himself as a critic of the system he once championed, questioning corruption, calling for political prisoners’ release, and challenging the legitimacy of Iran’s power structure.

His defiance of Khamenei – from a figure who once embodied loyal implementation of the supreme leader’s vision –  made him a unique voice in Iranian politics: a hardline conservative who had become an opposition figure, not through ideological transformation but through personal grievance and political calculation.

He is survived by his wife Azam Sadat Farahi and their three children.

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An American-Iranian Democrat destroys the Democratic Party for refusing to back the war on the Islamic Regime:

“It is imperative that the Democratic Party wake and gets past their dislike of Donald Trump…

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— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 1, 2026

“The U.S. military carried out 900 strikes in 12 hours. That might be a record. The Israelis carried out 1,200 strikes in the past 24 hours, more than during the entire 12-day war last summer.”

This is just the beginning.

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