Mullin says man with IRGC ties tried to enter US with Iranian soccer team
“The guy trying to get on the plane yesterday had direct ties to IRGC.”Advertisement Iran’s soccer team is based in Tijuana, Mexico, and is permitted to travel to the U.S. the day before its scheduled World Cup matches. The State Department has vowed to bar anyone with direct ties to the IRGC from entering the country.The Iranian soccer team is set to travel to Seattle for its match against Egypt later this week.Advertisement
- ▪“The guy trying to get on the plane yesterday had direct ties to IRGC.”Advertisement Iran’s soccer team is based in Tijuana, Mexico, and is permitted to travel to the U.S. the day before its scheduled World Cup matches.
- ▪The State Department has vowed to bar anyone with direct ties to the IRGC from entering the country.The Iranian soccer team is set to travel to Seattle for its match against Egypt later this week.Advertisement
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday said a man with “direct ties” to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attempted to enter the United States with the Iranian soccer team traveling to the U.S. for the World Cup.Speaking on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, Mullin said someone under the guise of being the soccer federation president tried to enter the U.S. with Iran’s soccer team but was not allowed to board the plane on Saturday. Recommended Stories Pope Leo XIV exalts first American saint Cabrini as a model for Christians for her care of migrants Nearly 900,000 deported by ICE under Trump as flights soared in May to new high Florida evacuates Alligator Alcatraz over hurricane concerns “When we started doing the research on him, he had only been put in place since…
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