Sec. Rubio on Iran Amid FIFA’s World Cup: What They Can’t Bring Is a Bunch of IRGC Terrorists and Pretend They’re ‘Journalists and Athletic Trainers’

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RUBIO: “Nothing from the U.S. has told them they can’t come. I mean, the problem with Iran would be not their athletes. It would be some of ​the other people they would want to bring with them, some of ​whom have ties to the IRGC. We may not be able to let them ‌in, ⁠but not the athletes themselves. But no one has — I don’t know where that’s coming from other than speculation that Iran may decide not to come in, and Italy would fill their spot. But that’s — if they decide not to come on their own, it’s because they decided not to come. What they can’t bring is a bunch of IRGC terrorists into our country and pretend that they are journalists and athletic trainers.”