Andrew Giuliani
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Again, we're striking that balance between making sure that any bad actors that come into the country or try to come into the country under the guise of the World Cup will not get access to the United States of America.
Iranian coaching staff, all the Iranian coaching staff is coming in.
There are some Iranian officials that are not coming in, again, for very good reason.
Can't get into the particulars on that, but as you can imagine, there are...
Some people that claim that they are coaches that may not be coaches.
And for the national team, all 31 players have had their visas issued, 26 plus the five additional players as well.
They're going to be able to come into the country the day before their match.
They're basing in Tijuana, which is about a 25 minute flight to Los Angeles.
So it'll be a real quick flight for them to be able to to get up there.
If they were to drive up L.A., it might take eight hours.
So I definitely recommend that they end up.
end up flying.
But but they'll be able to get in.
Look, the president has been clear on this one.
And Secretary Rubio, I know, has made multiple public statements just in the last six weeks on this one that he wants to make sure that they have every opportunity to compete on a level playing field here, while also making sure that people that are directly working, let's say, with the IRGC have no ability to access the United States of America.
And we are completely supportive of that.