{"id":619597,"date":"2026-06-16T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=619597"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:48:52","slug":"shock-claims-over-how-iran-players-were-treated-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=619597","title":{"rendered":"Shock claims over how Iran players were treated in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/div>\n

Members of Iran\u2019s World Cup team have alleged that they were kicked out of the \u201coppressive\u201d U.S. right after their first World Cup game Monday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t even give us time to recover,\u201d coach Amir Ghalenoei said through an interpreter, according to the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cAfter the game today, they said to us, \u2018You have to leave immediately.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very important for us to have time for recovery. We are asked to get on a plane and return to our camp in Tijuana, and we are really troubled by that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\ud83d\udea8\"TRENDING: Iran player Mohammad Mohebi scores and immediately does the finger-gun shooting celebration towards the crowd in the USA. pic.twitter.com\/qjMEB9ch7I<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Polymarket Sports (@PolymarketSport) June 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mehdi Taremi, the captain of the team, also chimed in on the abrupt exit requirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to leave Los Angeles right now, and it\u2019s not good for us,\u201d he said roughly an hour after their first World Cup match. \u201cI think FIFA has to help us more than this. \u2026 Everything is like a disaster, actually, for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u00a0added that they\u2019d suffered five hours of travel and security checks during their original trip on Sunday from Tijuana to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know why they are returning us, to be honest,\u201d Ghalenoei continued. \u201cI think it\u2019s very strange. It seems like others are doing the planning for us. The decision-making for us is being made elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were supposed to come two nights before the game, and we were supposed to stay tonight to recover and return tomorrow at lunchtime. We have no idea why. I think our team is perhaps the most oppressed in the World Cup<\/strong>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Both Taremi and Ghalenoei also complained about how many vital team staff members weren\u2019t even able to come along because their visas were denied.<\/p>\n

According to Ghalenoei, the team\u2019s players developed cramps because of a lack of preparation time caused by all the bureaucratic hurdles they had to endure.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the game, I said we haven\u2019t had time to adjust because of the travel,\u201d he explained. \u201cMany of our players, they had cramps, and that\u2019s why we had to substitute them. So it wasn\u2019t for technical reasons that we made substitutions. It was because of the injury and because of the cramp.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be examined by our technical staff, but the fact that they delayed our arrivals and are forcing us to go back early without time for recovery, they are making the situation more difficult,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n

Iran World Cup manager Amir Ghalenoei slammed FIFA & the Trump-Rubio State Department forcing them to leave tonight:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t even give us time to recover after the game today. They said to us, we have to leave immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfa5\" @TWDTV1<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Tz1lIk77G1<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9C6D9FboPh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Andrew Jerell Jones, Luke 1:37 (BlueSky too now) (@sluggahjells) June 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Video footage circulating on the Internet shows the moment that FIFA President Gianni Infantino visited the Iranian team in their dressing room to comfort the team and offer them support.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou showed to your families, friends, to your people, to the world, that you\u2019re in the World Cup, that you perform, and you have two more games to go,\u201d he told the team. \u201cIn these two games, you will make again everyone in the world proud of what you do. Thank you for being here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also a big, big emotion. I know what you go through, I understand, but you are stronger than everything. You send a strong message to the entire world. Like tonight, you united the whole stadium here, you united the whole stadium behind you, behind Team Melli. You are sending such a strong message to the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Listen:<\/p>\n

\n

FIFA Ba\u015fkan\u0131 Gianni Infantino, ma\u00e7 sonunda \u0130ran soyunma odas\u0131na inip futbolcular\u0131 kutlad\u0131:<\/p>\n

\u201cBu ak\u015fam t\u00fcm d\u00fcnyaya D\u00fcnya Kupas\u0131\u2019nda oldu\u011funuzu g\u00f6sterdiniz. Buradaki t\u00fcm stadyumu tak\u0131m\u0131n arkas\u0131nda birle\u015ftirdiniz. D\u00fcnyaya \u00e7ok g\u00fc\u00e7l\u00fc bir mesaj veriyorsunuz.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/PfZkkNkx4I<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Merkez Medya (@merkezmedyatv) June 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All this comes amid the reaching of a temporary memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran that\u2019s to be formally signed on Friday. It\u2019ll trigger a new 60-day ceasefire during which both sides will continue to negotiate toward a wider, far-reaching nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of Iran\u2019s World Cup team have alleged that they were kicked out of the \u201coppressive\u201d U.S. right after their first World Cup game Monday evening. \u201cThey didn\u2019t even give us time to recover,\u201d coach Amir Ghalenoei said through an interpreter, according to the Associated Press. \u201cAfter the game today, they said to us, \u2018You… Continue reading Shock claims over how Iran players were treated in Los Angeles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/619598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}