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The USA banned the European Champion in Taekwondo from entering (he's originally from Iran), thereby barring him from the US Open. (It's an interesting story:
by gcp 10y ago
The USA banned the European Champion in Taekwondo from entering (he's originally from Iran), thereby barring him from the US Open.
(It's an interesting story: his brother was actually a suicide bomber. Nevertheless he himself did get cleared for entry after vetting. The new Trump rules caught him as collateral last week.)
- bostand 10y agoThis is the first time I hear about a suicide bomber from Iran. Do you have any references to that?
- gcp 10y agohttp://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/brother-of-belgian-terrorist-heading-for-the-olympics-a-1103743.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/brother-of-belgia... The news articles I'm reading now have corrected their origin from Iranian to Moroccan, it seems.