Iraq did not allow the Iranian soccer team to fly directly to Basra.
Following the cancellation of the permission for the direct flight of the Iranian soccer team to Basra to participate in two preparatory meetings, the Iranian convoy had to travel by land to Iraq.
The IRNA news agency wrote on Tuesday, November 10 that while the Iraqi government "issued a direct flight permit from Tehran to Basra last week, this permit was canceled in the last hours before the journey of the Iranian national team convoy."
According to this report, in this way the Iranian national team will first leave on a special flight from Tehran to Abadan, and from there they will travel the rest of the way to the city of Basra in Iraq.
The Iranian national football team is about to play two preparatory games against the national teams of Palestine and Iraq.
This happened in a situation where Iraq is under severe pressure from the United States in relation to Iran. Ismail Baqaei, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said on Monday, November 9, in this context: "Regarding the pressures that are said to be applied to Iraq, no matter how heavy these pressures are, they cannot and should not distort the long-standing ties between the Iranians and the Iraqis."
Read the full version of this report on Radio Perda's website.