Ni Estados Unidos Esperaba Que México Terminara Escoltando a Irán Durante el Mundial...

And Mexico, without having sought or planned it, ended up being the country that solved the problem. Eleven members of the Iranian national team's technical and administrative staff did not receive US visas. Eleven people who are part of the official delegation of a team participating in the tournament co-organized by the United States were rejected in their applications for entry into American territory. The official reason has not been publicly communicated with precision by US immigration authorities, but diplomatic sources consulted by various international media outlets point in a clear direction: entry restrictions linked to the current state of the conflict between Washington and Tehran, which in the months leading up to the World Cup escalated to levels of tension that complicated the bilateral relationship to extremes that very few analysts had anticipated when FIFA awarded the tournament to the three North American countries. Iran filed a formal complaint with FIFA. And FIFA, which has specific provisions in its regulations regarding the obligation of organizing countries to guarantee access to all participating delegations without political restrictions, found itself facing a situation for which its crisis management protocols had no exact precedent. The United States did not expect Mexico to end up protecting Iran during the World Cup