{"id":226403,"date":"2026-10-03T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/war-sports-collide-as-irans-world-cup-kicks-off-in-los-angeles-and-more-ucla-media-ucla\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:41:17","slug":"war-sports-collide-as-irans-world-cup-kicks-off-in-los-angeles-and-more-ucla-media-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/war-sports-collide-as-irans-world-cup-kicks-off-in-los-angeles-and-more-ucla-media-ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"War, sports collide as Iran\u2019s World Cup kicks off in Los Angeles \u2014 and more UCLA media &#8211; UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/world-cup-iran-los-angeles-9.7235050\">CBC News<\/a> reported on the World Cup and Team Iran&#39;s arrival&nbsp;in Los Angeles &mdash; a potential collision of geopolitics and sports in an area with a large Iranian diaspora. &quot;You&#39;ve never had two countries engaged in active military conflict matching up against each other, competing in the same tournament,&quot; said Salma Mousa, a UCLA&nbsp;assistant professor of political science who is also affiliated with&nbsp;the Bedari Kindness Institute. Mousa, who studies the intersection of sports and conflicts, worries that a potential July 3 face-off between Iran and the U.S. in Texas might &ldquo;increase tensions to kind of a cataclysmic degree.&rdquo; Read more about UCLA in today&rsquo;s Washington Times. <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><b>More highlights from UCLA in the News: June 16, 2026<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>&ldquo;Birth rates are down, immigration rates have decreased, and more parents are opting to homeschool their children,&rdquo; said Tyrone Howard, a UCLA education professor specializing in racial equity. &ldquo;There are fewer Latino immigrants to America, a huge part of the population coming to the U.S. over the past several decades.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>Get top research &amp; news headlines four days a week.<br \/>(Check your inbox or spam filter for confirmation.)<br \/>Subscribe to a UCLA Newsroom RSS feed and our story headlines will be automatically delivered to your news reader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxQVTMzaDdHNDRCa1FEQjRVMVAySi1kZUIzN3NDY0tjcUxJZ3A3WTk4QVB3OEVSdFViNTdXbmEwZ1NYOGdHaEFGd092djEwejVnb1RvNFNNNW5Sc0tGMVNkb2JkakpySWVPazNXUHFPeU9uay1YYmRsTkc5Y3dTakswY0t0UURXbXVvSFBWeVBnajd1ZGcyZGpLNm9keGcxQVFFd0lKZ0o4Qzd4bE5seHRUMURFWUxZa1RGYl9SSkxn?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News reported on the World Cup and Team Iran&#39;s arrival&nbsp;in Los Angeles &mdash; a potential collision of geopolitics and sports in an area with a large Iranian diaspora. &quot;You&#39;ve never had two countries engaged in active military conflict matching up against each other, competing in the same tournament,&quot; said Salma Mousa, a UCLA&nbsp;assistant professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}