Israel-Iran attacks: Mehdi Taremi unable to join Inter for Club World Cup

The forward, acceptable to nexus up with Inter Milan successful LA, is stranded successful Iran aft his location country’s airspace was unopen down.

Inter Milan’s Iranian guardant Mehdi Taremi could miss the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 successful the United States aft being incapable to permission his location state to articulation his squad amid Iran’s airspace closure owed to its ongoing exchange of aerial occurrence with Israel.

Taremi, who was named successful Inter’s squad for the 32-team tournament, was expected to nexus up with his squad successful Los Angeles arsenic they cogwheel up for the tournament, but media reports successful Italy and the US said connected Saturday that the striker is apt to miss the archetypal lucifer connected Tuesday and possibly the full competition.

“The Iranian striker volition not articulation the Nerazzurri, neither for the archetypal lucifer nor for the others,” Italian sports paper La Gazzetta dello Sport reported connected Saturday.

“Inter person been successful adjacent interaction with the Iranian authorities successful Italy implicit the past 24 hours to comfortableness the subordinate and effort [to find] a solution that is presently impossible. The subordinate is successful Tehran successful a harmless spot and sheltered from the bombings,” the study added.

The Italian broadside unfastened their run against the Mexican side, Monterrey FC, astatine the Rose Bowl Stadium successful Pasadena, Los Angeles, connected Tuesday, but Taremi is improbable to beryllium portion of the squad.

The 32-year-old captains Iran and was among the extremity scorers arsenic they bushed North Korea successful their AFC World Cup qualifying lucifer astatine the Azadi Stadium successful Tehran connected June 10. A time later, helium won the inaugural Iranian Toopa Award (Golden Ball).

While it is unclear erstwhile the guardant was scheduled to alert retired of Tehran, his departure for the US was enactment connected clasp erstwhile Israel began its attacks connected Iran connected Friday morning, starring to the indefinite closure of its airspace.

Iran responded to the attacks aboriginal connected the aforesaid day, and some countries person been progressive successful an speech of occurrence ever since.

Taremi, who joined Inter Milan connected a three-year declaration successful July 2024, has scored 3 goals successful 43 appearances for the Nerazzurri.

Milan and their opening-game opponents Monterrey are placed successful Group E for the Club World Cup alongside Argentinian nine River Plate and Japanese broadside Urawa Red Diamonds.

Mehdi Taremi played and scored successful Iran’s AFC World Cup 2026 qualifying crippled against North Korea astatine Azadi Stadium successful Tehran, Iran connected June 10 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]