The U.S. assertion that a person linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attempted to board the national team’s flight to the United States on Saturday amounts to fabricated and wholly baseless accusations, according to the nation’s football federation.
Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, told Fox News on Sunday that an individual claiming to be the president of the Iranian football federation attempted to join the team’s flight from Mexico to Los Angeles for the upcoming World Cup match against Belgium, but was stopped.
Mullin did not identify the individual but asserted that he had “direct ties” to the IRGC, a claim the FFIRI has denied. The federation’s president is Mehdi Taj.
The FFIRI issued a statement condemning the remarks made by Secretary Mullin concerning the Iranian football federation president and members of the national team delegation, labeling them as false, fabricated, and baseless allegations.
The claim that an official representative of the Iranian football federation tried to board a flight into the United States yesterday and was stopped is an outright falsehood; those who made the allegation are aware that no such incident occurred.
It is regrettable that a senior U.S. official has chosen to spread false statements and misinformation to justify restrictions placed on members of the Iranian national team delegation.
When a specific, verifiable, and narrowly targeted allegation proves to be fundamentally false, it inevitably undermines the credibility of the remaining accusations.
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