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Several nearby roads were blocked and police officers patrolled the area near Los Angeles' Sofi Stadium hours before Iran was scheduled to play New Zealand in the World Cup, a day after a peace deal between Iran and the United States was announced.
A few minutes after 5 a.m. last Sunday, a charter flight carrying Iran’s World Cup team touched down at Tijuana’s international airport, the light on the horizon providing only a hint of the day — and weeks — ahead.
Iranian Saied Assadi, owner of the Comida Persa Iran restaurant, and his Mexican partner Claudia Leonardo pose outside the venue in Rosarito, on the outskirts of Tijuana, where a small Iranian community reflects broader political divisions within the diaspora ahead of the team’s World Cup campaign,
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