Iran playing chicken with the US
Iran threatened US homeland with attacks from sleeper cells. Iran sent a communiqué to Trump in the days before last night’s strikes on its nuclear facilities threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked, sources said.
Iran almost certainly will retaliate against the US; and they did, Qatar being the first. And Tom Cotton, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has said that Americans are “right” to be worried about the prospect of Iranian sleeper cells posing a threat from within the United States.
The former Russian president, Mr Medvedev claimed that “a number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.”
And in response, President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash ‘the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built’ if Russia supplies nuclear warheads to Iran.
USA Today • June 22, 2025
Iran − and its hard-line supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – are almost certainly going to strike back in response to historic US military strikes on three of its suspected nuclear facilities.
But if history is any guide, that response could happen at any time − and anywhere, and in any form, former US intelligence officials and diplomatic experts say.
“Missiles, militias and acts of hostage-taking – that’s their go-to” range of options, the Biden administration coordinator for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, said in an interview June 21 with CNN. “I suspect Iran will have to do something.”
A range of Iranian options
The Tehran regime, with its powerful military and numerous proxy fighting forces in the Middle East, could strike US troops in the region, experts and former officials said. It also could attack US embassies and civilian targets frequented by Americans, they said, and launch cyberattacks against crucial infrastructure in the United States.
Another option: attacking oil facilities in the Persian Gulf or mining the Strait of Hormuz to shut down international shipping lanes, with the help of the Houthi militias that Tehran trains and funds in Yemen.
Iran also could launch terrorist attacks using Hezbollah fighters that have been blowing up US military and civilian targets in the region since the 1983 bombings of the US Embassy and a Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon that killed 300 people.
And Iran could launch some of its vast arsenal of missiles against Israel, though that would risk having many of them shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome defense apparatus.
Tehran also has some of the world’s most accomplished cyberwarriors, and it could cause chaos and disruption by attacking US critical infrastructure. That risk is both credible and growing, said Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, a former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, after a 700% increase in similar attacks on Israeli infrastructure.
“If you ask me, ‘Is it possible?’ Yes,” said Montgomery, a senior fellow at the McCrary Institute at Auburn University. “Is it likely? Yes.”
Iran ‘threatened Trump with sleeper-cell terrorist attacks inside US.
Financial Review • June 23, 2025 Where is Iran’s uranium?
London/Tehran | The fate of Iran’s nuclear program, and attempts by the US and Israel to destroy it, could hang on the Islamic republic’s more than 400 kilograms of uranium enriched to levels just short of weapons-grade.
The stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent – part of an overall stockpile of more than 8400kg, the majority of it low-level purity — meant Tehran had the capacity to produce sufficient fissile material required for several nuclear bombs within days if it chose.
As news of the US strikes on Iran over the weekend was still unfolding, commercial satellite imagery provider Maxar Technologies released a set of images of Fordow taken on June 19 and 20, along with the following statement:
“Prior to tonight’s airstrikes on the three Iranian nuclear-associated facilities, Maxar collected high-resolution satellite imagery on June 19th and June 20th of the Fordow fuel enrichment facility that revealed unusual truck and vehicular activity near the entrance to the underground military complex.
“On June 19th, a group of 16 cargo trucks were positioned along the access road that leads to the tunnel entrance of the facility. Subsequent imagery on June 20th revealed that most of the trucks had repositioned approximately one kilometer northwest along the access road; however, additional trucks and several bulldozers were seen near the entrance to the main facility and one truck was positioned immediately next to the main tunnel entrance.”
Daily Mail • June 23, 2025
Iran reportedly sent a threat to Donald Trump just days before he ‘obliterated’ three of their nuclear sites, warning it would unleash sleeper cell terrorists inside the US if the country was attacked.
Trump received a communiqué from Iran just days before the US military strikes on its nuclear facilities threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked, sources told NBC News.
The official message was delivered to Trump through an intermediary at the G7 summit in Canada last week.
The president left early on June 16 to consider his options amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, according to the sources.
Following his departure from the G7 summit, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One he planned to hold ‘early’ meetings with his security team in the White House Situation Room after issuing a stunning call for people to ‘evacuate’ Tehran amid Israeli bomb attacks there.
After the US deployed B-2 bombers to drop more than a dozen ‘bunker busters,’ Iran’s foreign minister called the strikes ‘outrageous’ and said that Tehran ‘reserves all options’ to retaliate.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Sunday warning of possible cyber attacks and violence, including antisemitic hate crimes, following the strikes.
‘The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States,’ the bulletin said.
Cities across the United States are on high alert following the airstrikes on three nuclear cites in Iran.
Police in New York City and Washington DC revealed they increasing their presence amid fears of a retaliatory attack.
The New York City Police Department said in a post to X: ‘We’re tracking the situation unfolding in Iran.
‘Out of an abundance of caution, we’re deploying additional resources to religious, cultural, and diplomatic sites across NYC and coordinating with our federal partners. We’ll continue to monitor for any potential impact to NYC.’
Not long after that post, the Metropolitan Police Department also released a similar statement.
It said: ‘The Metropolitan Police Department is closely monitoring the events in Iran.
‘We are actively coordinating with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to share information and monitor intelligence in order to help safeguard residents, businesses, and visitors in the District of Columbia.’
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