Iran’s footballers arrive in US amid peace deal but admit tension ‘undermines joy’

Ghalenoi hopes disruption does not impact his team World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Download the app The Iran striker Mehdi Taremi has said the controversy and disruption surrounding their involvement at the World Cup undermines Fifa’s message of peace and conceded he felt the tension before arriving in Los Angeles on the eve of their opener, hours before a peace deal was announced . For the first time since the competition’s inception, a host nation has received a country with which it is at war. On Sunday Iran flew to LA from Tijuana, Mexico, where they were relocated amid an ongoing r

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