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Mexico stands with you.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>A young boy perched on someone&#8217;s shoulders clutched the official Panini FIFA World Cup 2026 sticker album, open to the Iran squad page.<\/div>\n<div>At one point, the \u200bcrowd sang in Spanish, &#8220;Iran, brother, you are Mexican now.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Iranian soccer federation President Mehdi Taj stood outside the hotel \u200bas the players left with many of the supporters following the bus down the street as it drove away.<\/div>\n<div>The Iranian community \u200cin \u2060Tijuana is tiny &#8211; around 20 people &#8211; and much smaller than that of Los Angeles, which is home to the largest Iranian community outside Iran.<\/div>\n<div>Tens of thousands of Iranian-Americans live in LA, where a distinct diaspora often referred to as &#8220;Tehrangeles&#8221; has taken root.<\/div>\n<div>Coach Amir Ghalenoei and striker Mehdi Taremi are scheduled to take part in a press conference at Los \u200bAngeles Stadium at 6:45 \u200bp.m. ET (2245 GMT).<\/div>\n<div>Members of \u2060the Iranian-American community have planned to gather near Los Angeles Stadium later on Sunday to protest what they called the Iranian government&#8217;s ongoing human rights abuses.<\/div>\n<div>Iran moved their \u200bWorld Cup base camp from a sports complex in Arizona to Mexico late last \u200bmonth after the \u2060U.S. and Israel conducted joint strikes on Iran beginning in late February.<\/div>\n<div>This is the first World Cup since its inception in 1930 in which a host nation is set to receive a country it is at war with.<\/div>\n<div>Monday&#8217;s Group \u2060G fixture \u200bagainst New Zealand at Los Angeles Stadium will be played against \u200bthe backdrop of the U.S. war with Iran, adding a charged atmosphere to a contest between two nations that have never met at the World \u200bCup.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1973\">US trade judge urges Trump administration to speed up tariff refunds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1971\">China\u2019s Hunan cracks down on illegal fireworks makers after deadly blast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1969\">A cracked coffin, a funeral and the hunt for Ebola\u2019s patient zero<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u200bcrowd sang in Spanish, &#8220;Iran, brother, you are Mexican now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-soccer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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