Iran’s ‌national soccer squad landed in Turkiye for a training camp on Monday ahead of their planned trip to the USD for the World Cup, with uncertainty still hanging over the team’s participation after the S and ​Israel attacked Iran in late February.

FIFA Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom told Reuters on Saturday that he ​held a constructive and positive meeting with Iran’s FA (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj, expressing ⁠confidence about the country’s participation in the World Cup.

The players and officials filed out ​of Antalya Airport in black team outfits, many pulling black suitcases, before heading to waiting buses ​to travel to their hotel at the training base in the nearby resort of Belek, where several national teams have held camps in recent years.

Iran is scheduled to play all three group matches in the United ​States, but the team’s participation in the June 11 to July 19 tournament has been ​in question since the attacks by the US and Israel.

Iranian officials and FIFA have said US visa ‌applications for ⁠the team would be handled in Turkiye. Uncertainty over the visas was fuelled after FFIRI’s Taj was refused entry to Canada for the FIFA Congress in Vancouver this month because of his links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The US and Canada, which are co-hosting the ​World Cup with Mexico, ​classify the IRGC as ⁠a “terrorist entity” and have made clear they will not admit people with links to the elite military force.

Iran had asked for their World ​Cup matches to be switched to Mexico, but FIFA President Gianni ​Infantino insists that ⁠all games must be played at the grounds originally scheduled.

Iran’s squad is scheduled to move to their US base at the Kino Sports Complex in Tucson, Arizona, in early June.

Iran is scheduled ⁠to ​get their World Cup campaign underway against New Zealand ​in Los Angeles on June 15. They are also due to play Belgium and Egypt in Group G.