{"id":623163,"date":"2026-06-22T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=623163"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:05:00","slug":"iran-tried-to-bring-irgc-linked-individuals-into-us-with-world-cup-delegation-homeland-security-chief-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=623163","title":{"rendered":"Iran Tried To Bring IRGC-Linked Individuals Into US With World Cup Delegation: Homeland Security Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran Tried To Bring IRGC-Linked Individuals Into US With World Cup Delegation: Homeland Security Chief<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin\u00a0said Sunday<\/a>\u00a0that Iranian officials attempted to bring multiple individuals with alleged ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into the United States as part of the country\u2019s World Cup soccer delegation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mullin made the remarks during an interview with Fox News as U.S.-Iran negotiations were<\/p>\n

U.S. officials subjected members of Iran\u2019s traveling delegation to heightened scrutiny after President Donald Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to conduct extensive vetting of individuals seeking entry into the country.<\/p>\n

Mullin said more than half of the additional representatives Iran sought to bring into the United States had connections to the IRGC, which U.S. officials view as a hostile military organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started doing the research on him, he had only been put in place since 2022, and we didn\u2019t allow him to board the plane,\u201d <\/em>Mullin told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, referring to the individual who had ties with the IRGC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy that tried to get on the plane yesterday had direct ties to the IRGC,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Mullin .<\/p>\n

\u201cWe accepted 53 individuals coming in and the rest of the individuals that Iran had tried to bring in all also had direct ties to the IRGC and aren\u2019t their normal traveling group,\u201d <\/strong>he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mullin said that the Iranian official who attempted to enter the United States was, according to Tehran, the president of the country\u2019s soccer federation, <\/strong>noting that the Iranian soccer team playing World Cup games is based in Tijuana, Mexico. The team flies from Mexico into the United States when they need to play games.<\/p>\n

The secretary said the administration anticipated that Iran could attempt to use the World Cup delegation to gain access to the United States and took additional precautions as a result.<\/p>\n

According to Mullin, Trump authorized what he described as extreme vetting measures to screen members of the Iranian contingent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese games that Iran plays makes them an adversary that you can\u2019t trust,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Mullin said.<\/p>\n

Mullin did not provide additional details about the individuals who were denied entry or the nature of their alleged ties to the IRGC.<\/p>\n

The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran\u00a0called Mullin\u2019s allegation<\/a>\u00a0\u201can outright lie.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe claim that an official representative of the Iranian football federation attempted to board a flight to enter the United States yesterday and was prevented from doing so is an outright and undeniable lie. This claim is so unfounded that those who made it are well aware that such an incident never occurred in the first place,\u201d FFIRI said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 06\/22\/2026 – 12:05<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran Tried To Bring IRGC-Linked Individuals Into US With World Cup Delegation: Homeland Security Chief Via American Greatness, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin\u00a0said Sunday\u00a0that Iranian officials attempted to bring multiple individuals with alleged ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into the United States as part of the country\u2019s World Cup soccer delegation. Mullin made… Continue reading Iran Tried To Bring IRGC-Linked Individuals Into US With World Cup Delegation: Homeland Security Chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/623153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}