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.

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