Mehdi Ghaedi will miss Iran’s upcoming matches against Qatar and North Korea after sustaining an injury during training. According to ISNA, the winger left the session in Doha after straining his left calf muscle.

Team medical staff confirmed that further tests will be conducted within the next 24 hours, but initial assessments suggest Ghaedi will require three weeks to recover. Following the injury, assistant coach Nasrollah Abdollahi consoled Ghaedi, spending several minutes by his side.

Ghaedi’s absence adds to Iran’s growing injury concerns, as Sardar Azmoun , Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Mohammad Mohebi, Ali Gholizadeh, and Seyyed Majid Hosseini had already been ruled out of the two matches