Mexican authorities are investigating how a corpse ended up outside a stadium in the border city of Tijuana, where Iran’s national team has been training for its upcoming World Cup match against

The stance could put the city at odds with FIFA, the organizing body of the World Cup. Iranians opposed to the current regime want the ability to wave the flag.

Iran open their World Cup campaign as they take on New Zealand in Los Angeles. Behemoths of the Asian game, Iran breezed through Asian qualification losing only of their 16 AFC preliminaries (and that was vs Qatar,

An Iran​-linked hacker group claims to have breached FBI drones and has threatened to target the World Cup, a monitoring group says. The monitor disputes some of the other group's claims. Hunter Sowards reports.

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Join our writers as they continue to the countdown to the World Cup ahead of the opening ceremony on Thursday. Iran says ticket allocation withdrawn 09:47 Staying on the “football and politics don’t mix” tip,