US watching Iran's World Cup delegation for IRGC links, Rubio says

 
WASHINGTON: U.S. ⁠Secretary of State Marco Rubio ​told lawmakers on ​Tuesday that the U.S. would not let Iranians with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) embed themselves in the ⁠country's delegation to take part in ⁠the soccer World Cup that begins this month.
The Iranian team will play matches ‌in the United States ​but will ⁠be based in Mexico ​for the tournament.
Despite the ‌war the U.S. and Israel launched against ​Iran in late February, Rubio said Washington had 'no problem' with the Iranian soccer team and its support staff entering the ‌country.
'What we're not going to ​allow is for them to embed ​in ‌their ⁠delegation a bunch of people that we know have nothing to ​do with athletics and have ⁠ties to ​the IRGC or things of that nature, so we were going to watch that very closely,' ​Rubio said at a House ​of Representatives committee hearing.