{"id":12766,"date":"2026-06-06T06:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:21:58","slug":"us-iran-trade-strikes-despite-visas-for-world-cup-footballers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12766","title":{"rendered":"US, Iran trade strikes despite visas for World Cup footballers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": 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style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>New attacks in the Middle East on Friday threatened to unravel an already fragile US-Iran ceasefire, even as American officials confirmed that Tehran\u2019s football players had received visas for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks of complex talks marked by threats and flare-ups of violence have failed to secure a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key conduit for global energy flows.<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire in the Middle East war, triggered nearly 100 days ago by US and Israeli strikes that wiped out Iran\u2019s top leadership, has been in place since April 8.<\/p>\n<p>But tensions surged again Friday when the US military said it struck radar sites in Iran after downing drones headed toward the strait.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, air raid sirens sounded in neighboring Gulf nations Kuwait and Bahrain \u2014 both US allies \u2014 and AFP correspondents in both countries heard explosions.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said early Saturday they had targeted \u201cenemy bases in the area\u201d with missiles in response to a US \u201cinvasion\u201d of the country\u2019s Sirik and Qeshm islands.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Iran launched seven ballistic missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM said six of the missiles were downed while the seventh \u201cdid not reach its intended target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are currently no reports of harm to US personnel, and Iranian claims of damaging US 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain are false,\u201d the command said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The latest flare-up came despite the United States moving ahead with allowing Iran\u2019s national football team to travel to the FIFA World Cup it is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack confirmed the visa issuances, saying that \u201csports transcends borders, and we look forward to welcoming competitors and fans from around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Iran\u2019s Fars news agency reported that visas had yet to be issued for some members of the team\u2019s \u201ctechnical and executive staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed US administration official said in a statement: \u201cWe will not allow the Iranian team to abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States under false pretenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team is due to fly from Turkey to Spain on Saturday before traveling on to their base camp in Mexico, where they will arrive on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Trading strikes \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, CENTCOM said its forces also downed four Iranian drones headed toward the Strait of Hormuz before striking Iranian coastal radar installations in Goruk and on Qeshm Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,\u201d while the strikes on radar installations \u201cdefend against further attacks,\u201d CENTCOM said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state television IRIB reported early Saturday, local time, that \u201cseveral explosions were heard\u201d in Sirik in southern Iran at around 2:30 am (2300 GMT Friday).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the invasion of the child-killing and terrorist US army into Sirik and Qeshm Island, enemy bases in the region were hit by aerial missiles,\u201d IRIB reported, quoting the Guards after the US strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait\u2019s military said early Saturday it was responding to \u201chostile\u201d missile and drone attacks, days after a strike on the country\u2019s international airport killed one and wounded dozens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKuwaiti air defenses are currently responding to hostile missile and drone attacks,\u201d the military said on X, without specifying their origin.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump told NBC News on Friday that Iran still retained roughly \u201c21, 22 percent\u201d of its missile stockpile despite repeated claims from US officials that Tehran\u2019s military capacity 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Salam addressed Iran\u2019s leaders in frank terms during a press conference, saying: \u201cHave mercy on our south, stop treating it and its people as merely a bargaining chip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the people of a sovereign nation that refuses to serve as\u2026 an open battlefield for their wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took aim at similar criticism from Lebanese President Joseph Aoun early Saturday, calling on him to save Lebanon from its \u201creal foe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran, in peace negotiations with Washington, has insisted that the fighting in Lebanon and the war in the Gulf are inextricably linked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div 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