FIFA’s Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom is scheduled to hold discussions with officials from Iran’s soccer federation (FFIRI) this Saturday in Istanbul, where he plans to provide “reassurance” regarding Iran’s World Cup participation, according to a source with knowledge of the planned meeting who spoke to Reuters.
The Iranian national team is set to compete in all three of their World Cup group stage matches on U.S. soil, but their involvement in the tournament running from June 11 through July 19 has been uncertain following military strikes carried out by the U.S. and Israel against Iran in late February.
