#MediaFocus According to a report from NBC News, Iran's sports minister on Wednesday raised the possibility that the country's national men's soccer team withdraws from the upcoming World Cup after the #US and #Israel started a war with his country and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in airstrikes. "Given that this government has assassinated our leader, we cannot participate in the World Cup. Our players do not have security," Iranian sports minister Ahmad Donyamali said, via the news agency Mehr News. "Certainly, we do not have the possibility of such participation." #WorldCup2026