{"id":113576,"date":"2026-05-14T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113576\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:04:23","slug":"iran-national-team-heads-toward-2026-world-cup-amid-death-to-america-chants-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113576\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran national team heads toward 2026 World Cup amid &#8216;death to America&#8217; chants in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Supporters gathered in Tehran on Wednesday to send off Iran national football team ahead of preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage showed players and coaches appearing on stage as crowds waved Iranian flags, sang the national anthem and chanted political slogans including \u201cDeath to America\u201d and \u201cDeath to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some attendees carried portraits of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran\u2019s team is expected to travel to Turkey for a training camp before heading to the United States for the tournament, which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supporters gathered in Tehran on Wednesday to send off Iran national football team ahead of preparations for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[949,9015,34,39311,2979,39312,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-113576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-death-to-america","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-national-football-team","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-national-anthem","14":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116573075133393396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}