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With the threat of Iran’s retaliation looming, the potential of terrorist agents to exploit the new era approach remains pointing to experts in anti-Semitic campus protests and social media propaganda, which is the way to create chaos in the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a national terrorism advisory system announcement warning Iranian support or domestic attackers of increased risk of domestic terrorism.
“If the Iranian leader issues a religious verdict calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the land targets, independent mobilization of violence by extremists in land violence may increase violence,” the announcement said.
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Iranian believers condemn the portrait of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an anti-Israel rally to condemn the Israeli attack on Iran on June 20, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
Sleeper cells are groups that foreign governments grow and live and work among citizens within a country, with the ultimate goal of ultimately terrorist attacks or politically motivated acts of violence.
According to Barak Seecher, a senior researcher at Henry Jackson Society, terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas were forced to “sit down” in helping Iran's attacks due to exhaustion of funds and resources, which greatly depleted the regime's performance of force, according to Barak Seecher, a senior researcher at Henry Jackson Society.
“Iran's ability to respond to the military is becoming increasingly minimal,” Seaseer told Fox News Digital. “We must remember that Iran's terrorist agents have been severely degraded.”
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In response to the loss of Iran's usual terrorist agents, Severer pointed out that the government uses sleeper cells to implement the agenda on its opponent's soil.
“Iran will seek to bend by activating sleeper cells in the United States, Britain, Europe and even Asia,” Seacher said.[It’s] About surveillance and then targeting community centers or policy officials. Therefore, Iran is no stranger to this game. ”
The threat to American safety has put U.S. officials at high alert, and the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are strengthening security measures nationwide. According to the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 11 Iranian nationals in the country, including alleged snipers in the Iranian military since bombing Iran’s nuclear site over the weekend.
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“It is our responsibility to ensure national security and information, especially during times of conflict,” Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “The ongoing Israel-Iran conflict has enabled possible forms of cyberattacks, violence and anti-Semitic hate crimes to increase the likelihood of threats to land.”
The FBI rejected Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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“Many agents from Lebanon, Iran, South America with Iranian ties have come through the borders,” Seacher said.[There’s] It's impossible to track at all. ”
However, Seacher also raised the possibility of Iranian agents engaging in anti-Israel campus protests across the United States, while using cyber warfare to launch false information on social media.
“Most of the opposition to the U.S. foreign policy against Israel and Gaza’s opposition has arrived [country] On student visas, Seener said: “They are not American nationals. However, they can cause interference and cause great damage. ”
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A protester stepped on the Israeli flag during an anti-Israel demonstration in Midtown Manhattan on November 2, 2023. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Numbers)
In response to ongoing anti-Israel protests on the ongoing university campuses, President Donald Trump ordered his administration to revoke hundreds of student visas belonging to known activists.
However, compared to the possibility of regimes that choose to attack U.S. soil, Paul Mauro, retired New York Police Department executive, said the risk of Iranian sleeper cells is pale compared to the possibility of a regime that chooses to attack U.S. soil.
“if [Iran] Mauro told Fox News that you were hoping to insert assets into the United States at the time, why didn’t you cross a porous southern border. Here are the foreign agents inserted and embedded in these campus protests. ”
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Demonstrators clashed with officials from the George Washington University Metropolitan Police Department in Washington on May 8, 2024. (Sage Russell/GW axe via AP)
Mauro said campus protests provided an attractive target for the Iranian government, with the main purpose of causing interference and dissent on U.S. land.
“They can be the recipients of funds,” Mauro said. “They can relate what happened to you. They can tell you who everyone is and how the interference will go. It's just about getting stuck in our blood and treasure on the front at home and causing chaos.”
Like Seacher, Mauro noted that the Iranian regime used social media and online platforms to radical Americans in an attempt to build native terrorists from scratch.
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“It's a really low-rent, easy-to-operate operation,” Mauro said. “You get someone who lives a slip-and-fall life [who] There aren't many identities, someone looking for a character, you give them one. It's subtle, it's a tempting process. ”
Anti-Israel protesters climbed a fence during demonstrations at City College in New York City, New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Despite the use of publicity and targeted social media aligned with ISIS, Mauro notes that the digital age is constantly changing and affecting the way attacks are being attacked.
“Traditionally, that's not Iran's Morro,” Mauro said. “That's not Hezbollah, but we're in a new world.”
But the possibility of terrorist organizations with new strategies used against common enemies remains the mind.
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“Now, my enemies are my friends,” Mauro said. “You can have the elements of the past, namely the remnants of al-Qaeda, ISIS, Syria, Iraq [be] Currently, the United States will be a soft target because you have all this turmoil among the progressives. ”
Although the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement did not cite any specific threat to the American people, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies across the country are highly alert as they encourage people to remain alert about tensions between the United States and Iran.
“There is no rules of participation for a rogue regime like Iran,” Saylor said. “Everything is a fair game. Western democracies don't operate in this way, which is alien to us, but that's how Iran works.”
