Iranian football legend Khodadad Azizi, who played in the first World Cup meeting between Iran and the United States in 1998, has told AFP that football should promote "peace" and remain separate from ...

Iran strikes, here’s a look at other times football’s biggest tournament was played in the shadow of war and political conflict.

A growing divide between fans and team, coupled with economic hardship and war, has dampened the mood Abbas Kiarostami, the late Iranian director, made a film called Life, and Nothing More …, set ...

The Fifa World Cup has never really existed in a political vacuum. Long before debates over travel bans or immigration policies, the tournament had already become a stage where governments projected ...

In past World Cups, Iranian Americans supported Team Melli, as Iran’s team is known, practically unreservedly. The idea: ...