Adam McQueen

So the Iranian Football Federation president, he's not allowed in because of his links to the IRGC.

There's lots of other support staff that couldn't be there.

They were going to do their press conference in L.A.,

Yesterday, and some of the press team haven't been allowed to go.

So somebody said, well, who's going to be advising them on tactics in terms of press tactics?

And they said, well, perhaps the kit man might have some advice for them.

But anyway, yes, it's been a rocky road for them to get here for sure.

Their star striker also wasn't picked for the team because he has spoken up about women's rights in the past.

Two of their matches are going to be in Los Angeles, which is sort of home of the huge Iranian diaspora.

About 375,000 Iranians live there.

I think there's an area of Los Angeles that they called Terrangeles because there's so many Iranians that live there.

Yeah, so they all want to go along and protest against the Iranian government and wave their pre-revolutionary sun and lion flags.

But that's not going to be allowed there.

because FIFA won't allow political statements to be made, unless it's Gianni Infantino in a MAGA hat, then it's okay.

No, I mean, four countries are under total travel bans.

There's Iran, Haiti, Ivory Coast and Senegal, so none of their fans can go.

And then there's other countries that have found it incredibly difficult to get

visas to go.

Countries like Ghana, Congo, Cape Verde, and just to prove they're not only anti-African countries, Uzbekistan has also found it really difficult to get visas to go to the World Cup.

Yeah, and then there's this Somali referee, Omar Artan, who he had a diplomatic visa in