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As President Donald Trump desperately tries to end the disastrous war of choice he launched on Iran \u2014 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 \u2014 the U.S. government isn\u2019t taking any chances with what it sees as a crucial national security threat to the homeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more Trump met with the Senate GOP \u2014 and gave them a moment of terrible clarity<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m speaking, of course, about the Iranian men\u2019s national soccer team, currently competing in the World Cup hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2019s players, Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed to reporters, \u201cThe United States doesn\u2019t want the Iranian national team to stay overnight in the United States.\u201d Since 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<\/em> before their next match in Seattle. They will still have to leave the country right after they\u2019re done playing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Trump administration official told MS NOW earlier in June, \u201cWe will not allow the Iranian team to abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States under false pretenses.\u201d Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News the Iranian delegation tried to smuggle into the country someone with \u201cdirect ties\u201d to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and he credited Trump for denying Iran the ability to activate terrorist \u201csleeper cells\u201d on U.S. soil. Mullin provided no evidence to back up this claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the idea seems absurd that Iran would attempt a devastating attack on the U.S. during the World Cup \u2014 carried out by cunning terrorists disguised as soccer officials under the watchful eye of the U.S. government \u2014 consider the larger context.<\/p>\n

Read more MaddowBlog<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s rulers are among the world\u2019s , including being the primary funders of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen. They backed Bashar Assad\u2019s murderous regime in Syria until it fell in 2024. They have oppressed their own people for nearly half a century and earlier this year killed thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) of citizens protesting their sadistic rule. Iran is without a doubt a menacing threat to Israel and numerous U.S. allies in the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The war that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched in February was based on the unsubstantiated premise that the regime was about to have a nuclear weapon. And yet, the war has brought an even more extreme set of rulers to power in Iran. Worse, America and Israel\u2019s fiasco is poised to make the regime hundreds of billions of dollars richer, with fewer sanctions and less diplomatic isolation. Most crucially, the war handed Iran a new weapon it could conceivably deploy forever: the threat to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In short, Trump started a war, swiftly lost it and he appears willing to do almost anything to end it and return to something worse than the Feb. 27 status quo. Meanwhile, his administration is harassing a soccer team \u2014 ostensibly for national security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Trump sheepishly tries to spin his calamitous defeat into a \u201cpeace through strength,\u201d the government\u2019s harsh scrutiny of the Iranian men\u2019s soccer team delegation looks like security theater of the most pitiful kind. And making the Iranian team travel just one day before a match, then offering the players no time to recover afterward, makes the U.S. look like a small and petty competitor. It\u2019s loser behavior from a losing, war-making president.<\/p>\n

Read more MaddowBlog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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