
Experts pinpoint EXACTLY where Iranian sleeper cell ground zero is... and how much damage they will cause to America
As Iran continues to consider further retaliation against the US after it bombed its nuclear facilities, experts warned enacting sleeper cell agents could be a high possibility, especially on college campuses.
With Russia and terrorists group Hezbollah and Hamas unable to help Iran as they have wars of their own to contend with, Iran's ability to hit the US where it hurts has become limited.
The country doesn't have missiles that can reach the mainland US, however, it isn't entirely powerless.
'Iran's ability to react militarily is increasingly minimalized. We have to remember that Iran's terrorist proxies have been severely degraded,' Barak Seener, a senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.
'Iran will be seeking to flex by activating sleeper cells in the US, Britain, Europe or even Asia. [It's] about conducting surveillance and then targeting either community centers or policy officials.
'Iran is not new to this game.'
Since the announcement of the US airstrikes in Iran last Saturday, major states, such as California and New York, have been on high alert for threats.
Earlier this week, Homeland Security announced it had arrested 11 Iranian nationals who were illegally in the country, including an alleged sniper.
The 11 men were arrested across the country, including from California, Colorado, Maryland, New York, and Texas.
Seener believes college campuses and anti-Israel protests at schools could be a place where these sleeper agents are.
'Much of the opposition to US foreign policy toward Israel and Gaza has been people that have been coming to the [country] on student visas,' he claimed.
'They're not US nationals. And, yet, they're able to create a disturbance and contribute to an enormous disruption.'
President Donald Trump has cracked down on anti-Israel protests on college campuses and began deporting foreign students engaging in it that his administration claimed had links to terrorism through the support of Hamas.
The Trump Administration has also demanded foreign students have to keep their social media pages public for government review.
Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD executive officer with the Intelligence Operations and Analysis Bureau, told Fox News Digital that Iran could radicalize Americans through social media, like other terrorist groups have done.
'That is a real low-rent, easy-to-run operation,' he told the outlet.
In a bulletin, Homeland Security, run by Kristi Noem (left) mentioned the 'likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing' if 'Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland.'
'You get somebody who is leading a slipping down life [who] doesn't have much of an identity, somebody who is looking for a persona, and you give them one. It's subtle, and it's a seduction process.
'You could have the kind of elements that previously, people in remnants of Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Syria, Iraq could [be] figuring right now that America is going to be a soft target because you have all this unrest among the progressives.'
In a bulletin, Homeland Security mentioned the 'likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing' if 'Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland.
Iran has threatened America with sleeper-cell revenge. The Middle Eastern country warned Trump it would unleash sleeper cell terrorists to wreak havoc on US soil if he attacked.
Trump received a communiqué from the regime just days before he ordered US military strikes on its nuclear facilities.
Iran has already retaliated by launching missiles at a US military base in Qatar.

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