Sara Eisen

Sara Eisen is a CNBC anchor known for high-profile interviews with political and business figures. On 15 April 2026 she interviewed FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the Invest in America Forum in Washington, eliciting his on-record statement that Iran is coming to the 2026 World Cup 'for sure'. The interview is the most definitive public statement Infantino has made on Iran's participation status, made while his own senior executives were simultaneously pressing him to ask Trump for a 39-day ICE moratorium.

Eisen's interview captured the structural contradiction in Infantino's World Cup posture: publicly affirming Iran's participation while privately being lobbied by executives alarmed by the ICE moratorium gap. The CNBC platform and Infantino's 'for sure' formulation made the interview a widely cited source in subsequent reporting on the Iran file.