Authorities within the Federal Government have raised alarm regarding the possibility of Iranian terror-backed sleeper cells operating within the continental United States after the successful Operation Midnight Hammer “completely and totally obliterated” Iranian nuclear facilities.BARTIROMO: Can you assess how many Iranians are in the country that are in sleeper cells?
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HOMAN: I said the last four years, my biggest concern was this open border is the biggest national security vulnerability this country has ever seen.
There were 1272 nationals of Iran… pic.twitter.com/rrueDJRkUL
"The likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing to violence in response to the conflict would likely increase if the Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland,” a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated Sunday.
The bulletin warned in particular that, “US law enforcement has disrupted multiple potentially lethal Iranian-backed plots in the United States since 2020.
During this timeframe, the Iranian government has also unsuccessfully targeted critics of its regime who are based in the Homeland for lethal attack.”
