FBI Watching Hezbollah Sleeper Cells in U.S. as Trump Weighs Iran Strike
With tensions at a boil and sleeper cells under watch, the question now isn’t just if Trump will act, but whether America is ready for what comes next.
As President Trump considers whether to launch a U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, federal law enforcement has intensified its monitoring of Hezbollah-linked operatives within the United States, according to a CBS News report.
FBI Director Kash Patel has increased efforts to monitor possible domestic sleeper cells linked to Hezbollah — a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization backed by Iran — since Israel’s Operation Rising Lion offensive began earlier this month, U.S. officials said.
Both the FBI and the White House declined to comment, but CBS sources say the stepped-up surveillance reflects long-standing concerns about Iran’s ability to orchestrate attacks on U.S. soil — concerns that have escalated since President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
For years, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials have been concerned about Iran’s ability to direct or inspire attacks within the United States — a concern that has ramped up since Soleimani’s killing. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and others have devoted significant resources to countering the threat.
One operative allegedly took that mission personally.
Late last year, federal prosecutors charged an operative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and two U.S.-based people with plotting to surveil and assassinate critics of the Iranian regime. The IRGC operative allegedly told investigators he was pushed by unnamed IRGC officials to plan an attack against Mr. Trump.
And the list of Iranian targets doesn’t stop with the former president. High-profile Americans remain under threat.
In recent years, prosecutors have charged people with plotting to kill Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton and Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad, both of whom are frequent critics of Iran’s government.
Bolton was placed under Secret Service protection in 2021 due to the threat. But this year, CBS News reports, President Trump revoked his protection this year.
Now, President Trump is weighing whether to strike Iran’s Fordo uranium enrichment facility.
Mr. Trump is considering whether to strike Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Fordo, joining Israel’s weeklong campaign against Iranian nuclear and military targets…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the timeline:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday the president will make a decision within the next two weeks, citing “a substantial chance of negotiation that may or may not take place” with Iran.
With tensions at a boil and sleeper cells under watch, the question now isn’t just if Trump will act, but whether America is ready for what comes next.
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“As President Trump considers whether to launch a U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, federal law enforcement has intensified its monitoring of Hezbollah-linked operatives within the United States, according to a CBS News report.”
“Monitoring.”
I’m wondering why these “cells” haven’t already been rolled up. I’m assuming of course that “Hezbollah-linked operatives” can be rolled up and booted out, or arrested.
Do we really expect Kash/Blondie/Dan to do anything but jawbone ?
They are not serious persons and I for one,
Am extremely disappointed in their selections
Yes, I do expect something to be done. As should you.
But… will they?
We’ll have to wait and see, I reckon.
Just them? How about Quds, CCP, Cartels…. the list and line are long. Whatever happens, it likely was because of the Left/Dems but Trump will get blamed.
NO!
Nope. Like all republicans they are all talk and no action.
I don’t want them monitored. I want them out of my country.
What are we waiting for? Something to happen?
Impatience will work against us. We can get more information about them by watching and listening. If we nail them prematurely we won’t be able to follow them to their next tier level. Who’s supervising and financing them? We can find out only by watching them.
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and are gonna watch them when they start kayhem?
How many of these cells are the FBI’s own agents provocateurs?
Is this the same “monitoring” they do of those who do things like plant pressure cooker bombs at marathons? Or the ones monitored driving vehicles into crowds?
I’m sure the FBI knows where all the Iranian sleeper cells are located… at least the ones operating out of gun clubs, homeschools, and traditional Catholic churches.
Top men!
Presumably Intel gathering, surveillance of geo location, phone calls, texts, email, financial data to discover what purchases these guys make, where they go, who they talk to and who those folks talk to and figure out how large an org/cell structure might be and to discover indicators of imminent actions.
And, since no one has actually declared war on Iran, they have to operate as against criminals and not combatants. So, until that “imminent action” they can’t arrest anyone or deport them (if otherwise legally here).
You could provide a little disruption with anyone known to be illegally here. And I hope they are thinking along the lines of where that might be a good idea now that Trump is in charge.
Yeah, I get all that. Fine line between gathering actionable intelligence and living out a real-world version of Kurt Schlichter’s “The Attack.”
As someone said below, I would prefer at least some effort be put forth to disrupt these “cells” and deport/detain/arrest those here illegally.
Starting with the known terrorist mosques near DC would be a good idea, I would think.
Yeah, agreed. At some point we gotta reach the stage where we stop gathering Intel and start rolling these guys up. If they haven’t led anywhere else and they are illegal aliens send ICE, if merely criminal v terrorists send LEO. If the surveillance already led to other cells then at some point gotta roll them up not use BS excuse about risking future Intel gathering b/c that means we’d never act to apprehend them.
Because we are watching them sleep, and supposedly unknown by them, we are thereby gaining important intelligence by such observation. You see we are playing a very clever triple game, which although they are countering by an even cleverer quadruple game, we are rendering useless by a reverse hexagonal game. But, I agree, it would be simpler to give them the big sleep.
You skipped the Pentagon. Hmmmm…. 😉
They have that covered by the Dem operatives.
“Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that’s creepy.”
Foreign enemy agents should be rounded up, wrung dry, and terminated.
I nominate you for Attorney General
b/c the left keeps claiming that would be voter disfranchisement
steve59, “They were on our radar.”
Yes. Expect some upcoming “known wolf” attacks.
Ok..monitoring sleeper cells of hezbollah. Good. Now how about the FBI start rolling up antifa??
Especially since AntiFa would be a primary source of actors for those terrorist cells. At a minimum for cover operations, if not for outright direct action.
Why strike? We could sell the improved bunker busters to Israel. Let them update their targeting software, practice for a week and then kaboom.
They don’t have aircraft that can drop them. Only our B-2s can do that.
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You are correct. I just checked the stats on that pig and they’d need about a billion swallows to carry that thing.
Can a cargo plane carry one and does Israel have a big enough cargo plane? Maybe we can lend lease a B52, paint it in Israel colors and have it do the drop with Israel paying for it,
A C130 cargo plane has the capability and considering that now the IDF Air Force has virtually unchallenged control of the Iranian air space, it may be practical.
We should strike because they have been asking for it since 1979.
the squad will claim you are spying on them
In the end these issues will become personal regardless of how much monitoring the FBI does.
All I can do is stay armed and alert.
Even after working in federal law enforcement I don’t put much faith in the system.
By the way, the national debt broke $37 trillion yesterday. It’s unsustainable.
“CBS sources”.
Right there, you have to decide whether or not this is just another media fabulism before expending more brain cells on believing it.
See? BS!
Infiltrate them like the FBI and discover the deep sleepers.
More realistically, if they are identified, then let them lead law enforcement to others. The unknown cells are where the most worry lies.