US envoy confirms Iranian footballers granted visas for World Cup
Le Monde
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The Iranian team is due to fly from Turkey to Spain on Saturday before traveling on to their base camp in Mexico, which has issued visas to the squad.
They were originally due to be based in the US, but switched their camp to Mexico due to the tensions between them and the US over the war in the Middle East.
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