The FBI under Director Kash Patel is increasingly vigilant against the possibility that sleeper cells — operatives who remain quiet in a target country until ordered into activity — will engage in attacks within the United States, CBS News reported Thursday.
It could be the badly wounded Islamic Republic’s last throw of the dice, an analyst who specializes in Iran told reporters.
“The very fact now that the Iranian regime is volatile, it’s targeted, and it’s highly vulnerable — that’s what actually makes it increasingly dangerous to the West, in that it has nothing to lose it has this about this sense of nihilism, and it affects the rational calculus,” Barak Seener, research fellow with the conservative, U.K.-based Henry Jackson Society, told reporters during a conference call Wednesday, according to the New York Post.
The FBI is focusing on sleeper cells linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror outfit, according to CBS.
Hezbollah has been a target of Israeli intelligence — including last fall’s spectacular pager bombing operation — but it has sleeper cells in the West, retired Army Lt. Col. Mike Nelson told NewsNation in a report published Friday.
Nelson indicated some Hezbollah agents might have entered the United States through Venezuela — the same country that’s the source of the Tren de Aragua gang that was able to take advantage of the U.S. open border during the Biden administration to set up operations in American cities.
……But there’s a history of Iranian malice at work in the U.S.
In 2011, the Justice Department charged an Iranian-American, along with an Iran-based official in the covert operations unit of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with plotting to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S.
(The Iranian-American was sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to the New York Post.)
In 2019, a Hezbollah sleeper agent was sentenced to 40 years for spying on U.S. facilities for the terror group, the Post reported at the time.
In 2022, the DOJ announced it had indicted an IRGC operative based in Tehran for trying to orchestrate the assassination of John Bolton, who served as national security advisor in Trump’s first term.
And in 2024, an illegal immigrant at the southern border told Border Patrol medical staff that he had trained with Hezbollah and planned to build and detonate a bomb on U.S. soil.
Iran’s terrorist leadership at this point might think it has nothing to lose, Seener told reporters, according to NewsNation.
Al Qaeda holds Death To The West conferences in Chicago, and Jamaat Al Fuqra terrorists have established training centers across the United States. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab American Action Network, and CAIR, three major facilitators of Islamic terrorism, operate freely in America. A government report concluded that Hezbollah has been forming sleeper cells throughout the United States that could become operational. All of them operate carte blanche within our borders.
Dearborn, Michigan has become quite a muslim extremist operating base , with Islamic jihad centers and mosques that are breeding grounds for terrorism. The main mosque in Dearborn, the Islamic Center of America, is run by Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini, who has considerable ties to Hezbollah. He also invited Nation of Islam’s lunatic Louis Farrakhan to speak, and openly advocates terrorism.
Minnesota is a state known for embracing Islamofascists and far-Left DemProg shit stains. Islamic insurgency is flooding the state. It’s become a hotbed for muzzie extremists. It leads the nation in would-be ISIS members; Minneapolis is a major recruiting center. The Somali population in the state is producing its fair share of terrorists. They travel overseas to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaida affiliate in Somalia, and ISIS in Syria and Iraq. There’s nothing to stop them from reentering the U.S. and committing more terrorist acts here.
Muzzie radicals have taken over Paterson, NJ and declared the town to be “the capital of Palestine in America”.
Before he slaughtered 13 Soldiers at Ft. Hood, Nidal Hasan spewed Islamic dogma during his briefings, signed his emails with “Praise Be to Allah,” and told a female supervisor she was an infidel who would be “ripped to shreds” and “burn in hell” because she was not muslim. But his bullshit went unreported because of the PC atmosphere. No one took it up through the chain of command because gawd forbid that they violate some EO reg and “offend” someone.
The FBI and the DHS need to shut down every single mosque and muzzie populated enclave in America.