TEHRAN, June 3. /TASS/. Everyone on the Iranian football team has been granted entry visas to participate in this year’s FIFA World Cup, which will be played across the United States, Canada and Mexico starting later this month, Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh said on Wednesday.
"Entry visas for the Iranian national team’s players were issued within 48 hours without them needing to be personally present or go through the fingerprint scanning procedure at the Mexican Embassy," Habibollahzadeh told the Iranian state television and radio broadcaster.
FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafstrom announced that on May 17, representatives of FIFA and the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) held a productive meeting in Turkey, giving FIFA confidence that the Iranian national team would indeed take part in the upcoming World Cup.
Earlier in May, the Iranian football federation lauded the decision to move the team’s training camp from the United States to Mexico.
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