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PORTALUTAMA.NET, LOS ANGELES \u2014 Drama visa mewarnai perjalanan Timnas Iran ke Piala Dunia 2026. Dari 15 delegasi Team Melli ditolak masuk Amerika Serikat (AS), 4 orang akhirnya menang banding dan diizinkan berangkat ke Negeri Paman Sam. Sementara Presiden Federasi Sepak Bola Iran, Mehdi Taj, tetap gigit jari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laporan BBC dikutip fajar.co.id pada Minggu (14\/6\/2026) menyebutkan bahwa keempat delegasi yang lolos itu terdiri dari analis tim teknis dan 2 pejabat departemen internasional federasi. Mereka berhasil setelah mengajukan keberatan di Meksiko, markas sementara Iran selama turnamen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Total ada 15 perwakilan Iran yang visanya ditolak pemerintah AS. Dari jumlah itu, 10 orang mengajukan banding setelah tiba di Meksiko. Satu delegasi lain memilih tidak mengajukan ulang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hasilnya: 4 menang, 6 tetap ditolak. Enam nama yang gagal lolos justru “bobot berat”. Ada Mehdi Taj selaku Presiden FFIRI, salah satu wakil presiden federasi, 2 administrator tim yang urus operasional harian, petugas media, dan petugas keamanan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karena masalah visa ini, Iran terpaksa bikin markas di Meksiko meski harus terbang bolak-balik ke AS buat main. Jarak jauh dan urusan imigrasi. Ini menjadi tantangan berat di luar lapangan buat Team Melli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Masalah visa tidak hanya menimpa Iran. BBC mencatat sejumlah suporter dari beberapa negara juga dilarang masuk AS. Wasit anyar asal Somalia, Omar Artan, bahkan ditolak saat hendak memimpin pertandingan Piala Dunia 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Situasi ini terjadi di tengah hubungan Iran-AS yang memang sedang memanas. Urusan politik akhirnya ikut masuk ke lapangan hijau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di lapangan, Iran tetap harus fokus. Laga perdana Grup G sudah menunggu. Team Melli akan menghadapi Selandia Baru di Stadion SoFi, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, Selasa (16\/6\/2026) dinihari Waktu Indonesia Barat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Usai laga, skuad asuhan Amir Ghalenoei harus menempuh perjalanan panjang lagi kembali ke Meksiko. “Home base” mereka ada di sana, bukan di Amerika Serikat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dengan 4 staf kunci yang akhirnya lolos, Iran sedikit lega. Tapi absennya Mehdi Taj dan tim operasional utama tentu jadi ganjalan besar. Mampukah Team Melli fokus 100% di lapangan meski urusan visa bikin pusing? (sam\/fajar)<\/p>\n\t \n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n PORTALUTAMA.NET, LOS ANGELES \u2014 Drama visa mewarnai perjalanan Timnas Iran ke Piala Dunia 2026. Dari 15 delegasi Team Melli ditolak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-150x150.webp","medium":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-300x169.webp","medium_large":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-768x432.webp","large":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-1024x576.webp","1536x1536":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp.webp","2048x2048":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp.webp","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-392x272.webp","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-390x205.webp","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-130x90.webp","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-800x445.webp","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-150x150.webp","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-1200x600.webp"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Redaksi","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b7471c990eaf3bbb9eb8588768e7506fe3240b053ad738bae905f94f0ebd1eb0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"PORTALUTAMA.NET, LOS ANGELES \u2014 Drama visa mewarnai perjalanan Timnas Iran ke Piala Dunia 2026. Dari 15 delegasi Team Melli ditolak","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp.webp",1200,675,false],"medium":["https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/portalutama.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414_071406.webp-150x150.webp",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Redaksi","author_link":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/author\/neno\/"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b7471c990eaf3bbb9eb8588768e7506fe3240b053ad738bae905f94f0ebd1eb0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalutama.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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