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Iran's national football team greeted fans on June 9 ahead of a training session in Tijuana, Mexico, after the US Department of Homeland Security said on the same day that the team would be allowed to enter the US the day before each of their three World Cup matches.

The team is in Tijuana for its final training camp amid tensions that have turned the world’s biggest sporting event into a soft-power contest between the US and Iran.

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00:00How do you feel in Mexico?
00:05How do you feel in Mexico?
00:07How do you feel in Mexico?
00:08Happy!
00:09Very excited!
00:42How do you feel to be welcome?
00:45Two players from here and a player.
00:54And that's why I'm so happy, happy.
01:00And, as I said, if it doesn't repeat, I'm happy that at least one time I lived.
01:30They're trying to focus, but it's just a tough situation.
01:33You know, they have to deal with it.
01:36It is what it is.
01:38There is nothing.
01:38All they're thinking, okay, they're going to come here, represent Iran, and do the best job for the people, make
01:45people happy.
01:46That's all they can do.
01:48That's all they want to do.
01:50They want to make Iranian people happy.
01:53Because they've been under bombing constantly for the past 60 days.
02:06We are really trying to make the U.S. nation against the bomb.
02:12And this is what we are coming to football.
02:15We are showing that Iran is not a threat.
02:17We are not a threat.
02:18We are not a threat.
02:19We are the same.
02:21We are the same.
02:21Until we have a fight, we will go to the ball.
02:24But if we don't have to, we are not a threat.
02:27We have to be a threat.
02:29We have to be a threat that the people have to be close.
02:30And now we are not a threat.
02:33We are not a threat.
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