Travel ban prevents wrestling team from competing

Travel ban prevents wrestling team from competing

Isaac Trujillo, Reporter

The U.S wrestling team is not allowed to compete in a wrestling tournament in Iran due to our new ban on travel. The wrestling team won’t be able to compete in this month’s wrestling freestyle cup because visas were denied to its members, the Iranian semiofficial Tasnim News Agency said Friday. The denial comes after Iran announced it would take “reciprocal measures” toward US citizens following President Donald Trump’s order last week banning entry to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, to the United States.

The US wrestling team has been in Iran for tournaments 15 times since the Iranian Revolution, and the sport’s governing body said Monday it planned to send a delegation to the Freestyle World Cup on February 16-17 in Kermanshah, Iran. Team USA Wrestling said Friday it had not been officially notified its wrestlers would be denied entry into Iran.