Trump lost his war, but he’s treating Iran’s World Cup team as a national security threat

As President Donald Trump desperately tries to end the disastrous war of choice he launched on Iran — which seems certain to conclude with the terror-supporting theo-fascist regime being rewarded with more riches, sanctions relief and global influence than it could have dreamed of four months ago — the U.S. government isn’t taking any chances with what it sees as a crucial national security threat to the homeland. 

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I’m speaking, of course, about the Iranian men’s national soccer team, currently competing in the World Cup hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. 

The team was originally supposed to have its base camp for training and lodging in Tuscon, Arizona, but was compelled to relocate to Tijuana, Mexico, after the United States denied visas to members of the Iranian delegation. While the U.S. approved visas for Iran’s players, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed to reporters, “The United States doesn’t want the Iranian national team to stay overnight in the United States.” S ince the tournament started earlier this month, the Iranian team has only been permitted to enter the U.S. one day before its scheduled matches in Los Angeles, and was required to leave immediately afterward. The U.S. will now magnanimously allow the Iranians to arrive two days

before their next match in Seattle. They will still have to leave the country right after they’re done playing. 

A Trump administration official told MS NOW earlier in June, “We will not allow the Iranian team to abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States under false pretenses.” Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News the Iranian delegation tried to smuggle into the country someone with “direct ties” to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and he credited Trump for denying Iran the ability to activate terrorist “sleeper cells” on U.S. soil. Mullin provided no evidence to back up this claim. 

If the idea seems absurd that Iran would attempt a devastating attack on the U.S. during the World Cup — carried out by cunning terrorists disguised as soccer officials under the watchful eye of the U.S. government — consider the larger context.