Iran at the World Cup under special regime: visas refused for staff, entry and exit on the same day, Tehran petitions FIFA

Germany

2 SOURCES

U.S. administrative voice · 2 of 7 countries

Berlin keeps a factual tone and inscribes the incident in the general World Cup live blog, without politics

Australia

3 SOURCES

European and Latin equidistance voice · 3 of 7 countries

Sydney reads the visa episode as a sporting and geopolitical signal: SBS News quotes Iran calling out "discriminatory treatment"

Brazil

3 SOURCES

European and Latin equidistance voice · 3 of 7 countries

São Paulo directly titles the "accusation of discrimination" and uses Portuguese AFP coverage as a base, without positioning

United States

3 SOURCES

U.S. administrative voice · 2 of 7 countries

Washington accepts the players but filters the staff using the IRGC criterion and accuses Iran of "abusing the system" to sneak in terrorists

France

incl. 1 state outlet

4 SOURCES

European and Latin equidistance voice · 3 of 7 countries

Paris describes the sequence as "war has invited itself to the World Cup" and translates Iran's humiliation without disqualifying it

Iran

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Sporting victim voice · 2 of 7 countries

Tehran qualifies the humiliation as "the highest level of intentional discriminatory treatment" and petitions FIFA for violating its own rules

Nigeria

4 SOURCES

Sporting victim voice · 2 of 7 countries

Lagos echoes the Iranian formula "incompetent host" via Iran's embassy in South Africa, and the subject circulates freely in the African press