Iran is moving its World Cup training base to Mexico after football's world governing body FIFA approved a request to transfer it from Tucson, Arizona, the head of Iran's football federation said overnight.The Iranian team will now be based in Tijuana on the border of Mexico and the United States during the tournament, federation president Mehdi Taj said in a video carried by the Fars news agency."Fortunately, thanks to the meetings we had with FIFA officials .. We have actually completed the team building there."Taj said that the move would help to avoid complications related to visas and that the squad could use Iran Air flights to travel directly to Mexico.Iran's participation in the World Cup has been in question for months because it is being co-hosted by the United States, which along with Israel began bombing Iran on 28 February, sparking a wider war in the Middle East.Iran has been drawn in Group G and will play their first two matches in Los Angeles.The team opens its campaign against New Zealand on 15 June and will then face Belgium on 21 June before rounding off their group games against Egypt in Seattle on 26 June.Taj said that Tijuana was closer to the cities where Iran will play than the camp in Arizona would have been."The distance for us in the two games that we have in LA will be a 55-minute flight