US grants visas to Iran World Cup footballers
6/6/202630 min
Washington has confirmed that Iran's World Cup players have been issued visas to enter the United States, ten days before their first match in Los Angeles. The team will be based in Mexico during the tournament, but all three of their group stage matches will be held in the US. Iranian media are reporting that some staff travelling with the national team are yet to be given visas.
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Photo: Iran's Amir Razzaghinia, Ali Nemati and Hossein Kanani line up during the national anthems before their International Friendly against Gambia in May 2026 Credit: REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. [upbeat music] I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Saturday the 6th of June, these are our main stories. With time running out until the start of the World Cup, Washington has confirmed the Iranian team will be given visas. But what will that mean in practice? The British Prime Minister's office rejects the intervention by the US Vice President over the murder last year of a white man by a British-born Sikh man. And why air leaks on the International Space Station forced a temporary evacuation of its crew to a spacecraft.