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Arrest of Iranian Spies in U.S. Just ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Lawmaker Warns
Iran spies stationed across U.S. a result of Obama-era cash payouts
BY: Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 29, 2018:
The recent arrest of two Iranian agents alleged to have been running spy operations on U.S. soil is just “the tip of the iceberg” in terms of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to conduct intelligence operations in America that could result in a terrorist attack, according to a leading lawmaker and U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the matter.
Following the arrest of two Iranian individuals charged with spying on Jewish and Israeli facilities in the California area, Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.) told the Free Beacon it is likely Iran has stationed multiple regime-tied agents in the United States to conduct intelligence operations.
While the arrest of the two Iranians was met with shock in the press, Roskam said he was not surprised by the arrests, which have unearthed concrete evidence of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to foment discord across the globe, including on American soil.
“This is the tip of the iceberg,” Roskam said in an interview. “This is not a surprise and this is a result of the Iran regime getting financial support from the Obama administration in the Iran deal.”
Iran has been emboldened by the lack of international repercussions on its malevolent behavior and may have increased its intelligence operations in America in the years since the landmark nuclear deal, he said.
Iran is “acting with impunity, that deal emboldened them,” Roskam said. “This is an unmasking of that. Unfortunately it’s all too predictable. Give a malevolent regime huge amounts of cash with no restraining influence and this is what happens.”
The Trump Justice Department announced last week it had arrested two Iranians and charged them with spying on behalf of the hardline regime, a discovery that has refocused attention on the Islamic Republic’s global spy operations.
Lawmakers and experts have been warning for some time that Iran has stationed what some described as “sleeper cell” agents across the United States. These agents are believed to operate with impunity and could lay the groundwork for a large-scale terror attack on American soil.
The two Iranian individuals—identified as Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian citizen and resident of California—were formally charged by the Trump administration “with allegedly acting on behalf of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran by conducting covert surveillance of Israeli and Jewish facilities in the United States, and collecting identifying information about American citizens and U.S. nationals who are members of the group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK),” an Iranian opposition group that promotes regime change in the Islamic Republic, the DOJ announced.
One U.S. official, agreeing with Roskam’s assessment, told the Free Beacon Iran has been running “vast espionage and information operations in the United States” with virtual impunity. The arrest of the two recently charged Iranians denotes a significant shift in policy that could result in the capture of more agents.
“If there’s anything that’s become obvious in the last few months, it’s that the Iranians are running vast espionage and information operations in the United States,” said the source, who could only discuss the situation on background. “The Trump administration has been warning since day one that some of the windfall Iran got from the nuclear deal has been going into malign cyber operations.”
“The propaganda network that Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube uncovered was doubling as a hacking network that had been ramping up in the last couple of years,” the source said, referring the recent uncovering of a massive social media influence campaign believed to be organized by Iran.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), also a vocal critic of the Iranian regime, told the Free Beacon the recent arrest of the two Iranians is cause for major concern.
“I am deeply alarmed by the Justice Department’s new indictment against alleged Iranian agents,” Rubio said. “Iran’s regime has sponsored terrorist attacks against Americans abroad and our allies, and may now be seeking to target American citizens, as well as Jewish or Israeli facilities, on U.S. soil.”
Roskam, in his comment to the Free Beacon, noted that “Iran’s malevolence” toward Israel and other countries it considers an enemy is well documented.
“What’s new here is a level of aggression against the United States and an impunity with which they’re operating,” the lawmaker said, referring to the spy operations on Jewish targets—a cornerstone of Iran’s global terror operations, particularly its 1994 bombing of a Jewish facility in Argentina that sent shockwaves through the global Jewish community.
The operations on U.S. soil are “incredibly provocative and an indication where the Iranian regime is,” Roskam said.
Iran has publicly stated multiple times over the past years that it has a vast espionage network that includes the United States. While many have dismissed these claims as posturing, Roskam said Iran should be taken at its word.
“The takeaway is we can take the Iranians at face value,” he said. “They were declarative during the Iran negotiations: They were not willing to make any commitments as it relates to their state sponsorship of terror. It’s clear they haven’t. This can’t be a surprise to anyone. It is entirely consistent with what they’ve been communicating. The surprise is the idea anyone thought they were slowing down or giving up their aggressive disposition.”
Congress will play a prominent role in investigating the matter in the months to come. This will include working with federal law enforcement to ensure Iranian agents are not able to coordinate terror attacks on Jewish or Israeli facilities.
Earlier this year, Congress heard testimony from a panel of experts of former U.S. officials about Iran’s “sleeper cell” networks in America.
Iran, through terrorists affiliated with Hezbollah, could easily launch strikes in America.
“They are as good or better at explosive devices than ISIS, they are better at assassinations and developing assassination cells,” Michael Pregent, a former intelligence officer who worked to counter Iranian influence in the region, said during the April hearing. “They’re better at targeting, better at looking at things,” and they can outsource attacks to Hezbollah.
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31 Comments
5 years ago
Not only has our country been infiltrated with Islamic country spies, it has also been infiltrated with military aged refugees(?) that are the seeds for domestic terror cells just waiting for the order to sprout and begin their jihad.
5 years ago
And the first Muslim democrat president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and
deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
5 years ago
Didn’t Obummer grant a bucketload of greencards to Iranians as part of his cash for terrorism operation?
5 years ago
Reply to
Trevor Fortune
He also “lost” 30,000 green cards. He also gave out citizenship to 2,500 Iranians to help get the Iran deal done. Oh how Iran LAUGHED at us. We practically begged them to screw us over.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obhammud thinks he fooled the Iranians into agreeing to the deal and the Iranians think they f*cked him into taking it.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The Middle East laughs at us because we are hostage to the PC liberal left progressive movement. Such as we read here daily would never be allowed or tolerated in the ME.
5 years ago
Dual citizenship has to end!
Spend more time on social media and youtube. Th media giants protect jihadis.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I agree. Dual citizenship should end. Choose. Who are you? Where do you truly wish to be? What would Pres.Theodore Roosevelt say?
How far we have strayed from our identity, our values.
5 years ago
Send them to Gitmo and break out the water boards!!!!
5 years ago
Canada is loaded with them too…..too many for the government to monitor…..It’s a recipe for disaster!
5 years ago
Reply to
MajorTom
But, but if we are NICE to them, they’ll be nice to us, right?
The ELITE just doesn’t get it. It is the people that will suffer.
5 years ago
Reply to
MajorTom
We need TWO border walls, since we are surrounded by potential enemies. The barriers can be manned by deputized military veterans with long rifles and CLEAR rules of engagement (ROE) eh?.
5 years ago
Reply to
MajorTom
Accurate numbers are deliberately kept from Canadians but out of an estimated 700 terrorists welcomed back by trudeau, didn’t McCallum say they know where 46 are? My numbers might be way off, but it is hard to find anything much on the State controlled Canadian media.
5 years ago
Reply to
ninetyninepct
It’s the same with criminal gangs in Canada….the total number is no longer advertised to the public because, I expect, it is a national embarrassment that they can’t deal with…
It is political cowardice and compromise at every level!
5 years ago
“Congress will play a prominent role in investigating the matter in the months to come. ” LOL!
Seeing Rubio feign concern means nothing as well. The swamp is perfectly content to let this continue.
Trump has an uphill job.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Let’s hope they are the target, because they gave them the money and let them in.
5 years ago
Just think what would have happened to America by now if Mrs. Clinton had been elected.
5 years ago
Reply to
VoiceInDesert
If the Hildebeeste had been “elected,” we would have already cleaned out the Marxists (including the fat-bottomed Hildebeeste) illegal aliens, Entitlementarians, Dreamers and useless Snowflakes.
5 years ago
As these Iranian thugs set about carrying out their objectives, you can bet they have made themselves aware of targets of opportunity and areas where US citizens either place no value in the Second Amendment or actively campaign against it.
Now you see why I carry a concealed weapon everywhere I go.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
Lots of bad Muslims here and willing to destroy America an the leftist here to help them. Troubles coming big time.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ray - God Bless Israel.
The ones I have met I have not liked. These were mostly college student in the early 1970’s a sorry lazy bunch. I was going to school onthe GI bill after I had gotten out of the army.
5 years ago
Obama himself is a muslim terrorist. Valerie Jarred is from Iran.
5 years ago
Yes, it always goes back to the Negro, doesn’t it?
He’s free as a bird as his mentor use to say about himself when they let him go. You should be carefool about who you let go.
No Bill Ayers would have meant no Negro sodomite as “President”. The Negro has been very destructive to this country. I’m amazed he got just 8 years for his crimes.
5 years ago
Kenyan IslamoMarxist Barack Hussein Obumfook should be charged as an enemy agent, prosecuted and dispensed with as the law allows, perhaps under UCMJ, since he was the CNiC…..
5 years ago
Obama has done such damage to my country that I don’t know if it’s reversible. Between the far left liberals, Muslims, black racist infiltrating our country is a disaster and could cause a civil war if they don’t stop with their Trump bashing and impeachment!
5 years ago
Keep guns close for obamas quran pig book followers
5 years ago
Reply to
Davey Dunn
RE: book – In every democratic country the Koran meets every definition of hate literature.
5 years ago
Sad to say, a massive 9/11-like jihadist attack in California, killing thousands of innocent citizens and risible movie stars, is required to open the eyes of mentally deficient liberals to the dangers posed to America by Iran and its proxies.
