🔻Iran Football Federation, in a statement, announced that Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Saman Ghodous, Mehdi Taremi and Ali Ali پور are four players who, due to injury, are unable to accompany the national team in the two upcoming friendly matches.

🔹The fact that Hossein Kan‘ani-Zadegan is not included in this list shows that the omission of the Persepolis defender has nothing to do with injury.

🔹This comes while Kan‘ani-Zadegan had previously said in an interview with «» that the reason for his absence was injury, and had stated: «The doctors of Persepolis and the national team have discussed this matter, and I am willing to play even with these conditions. My injury is not severe, and I will return within the next two or three weeks.»