{"id":178060,"date":"2026-06-26T05:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/178060\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:33:32","slug":"fifa-will-allow-rainbow-flags-at-egypt-vs-iran-match-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/178060\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA will allow rainbow flags at Egypt vs. Iran match at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle \u2013 FIFA said it will allow fans to bring rainbow flags inside Seattle Stadium for Friday\u2019s World Cup \u2060match between Egypt and Iran, although it appears no additional activations will be permitted promoting the city\u2019s annual PrideFest.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries\u2019 federations have stated objections to the so-called Pride Match,\u00a0with the Iran Football Federation requesting that symbols or representations of the Pride movement be restricted during the match.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA said \u200bthat rainbow flags are permitted at all World Cup matches, but does not have \u200cany authority \u200cover community events such as Seattle PrideFest that take place outside \u200bof stadiums hosting games and official fan zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle \u2013 FIFA said it will allow fans to bring rainbow flags inside Seattle Stadium for Friday\u2019s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[6115,655,34,4261,1617],"class_list":["post-178060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-egypt","tag-iran","tag-lgbtq","tag-seattle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116814781031097986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178060","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=178060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}