{"id":58117,"date":"2026-07-20T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/58117\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:20:09","slug":"iran-says-spain-world-cup-win-brings-joy-to-critics-of-us-israel-world-cup-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/58117\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says Spain World Cup win brings joy to critics of US, Israel | World Cup 2026 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-label__link\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/fifa-world-cup-2026\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-label__image\" height=\"22.5\" width=\"222.75\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784550009_451_Post-Label-Image-Option-1-1780213226.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"World Cup 2026 post label\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Iran praises Spain\u2019s win over Argentina after Spanish government\u2019s condemnation of policies on Gaza and war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Iran has congratulated Spain on its victory in the World Cup final, saying it has brought happiness to people around the world who oppose the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The winning side appeared on social media to have won support from people around the world, thanks to the Spanish government\u2019s condemnation of Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza and Madrid\u2019s criticism of the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Israeli politicians and football fans had rallied for Argentina, whose president, Javier Milei, has been a vocal supporter of Israel\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players\u2019 defence of the Palestinian people and the support of Spain for Iran \u2026 showed that freedom and assertiveness are characteristics of that intelligent and respectful nation,\u201d Iran\u2019s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said on Monday in remarks quoted by the state news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Spain\u2019s 1-0 victory \u201cnot only made the hearts of the Spanish people happy but also the hearts of many free and independent and justice-loving nations of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said: \u201cThe behaviour of the Spanish national team and Spain\u2019s stance in general in recent months in opposing aggression, genocide and oppression was valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran praises Spain\u2019s win over Argentina after Spanish government\u2019s condemnation of policies on Gaza and war on Iran.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[313,398,31,32,274,202,273,275,17,314,26,1180,1179,3003],"class_list":["post-58117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-football","tag-gaza","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}