ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals Amid Sleeper Cell Threat

[Valletta]

NEW: ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals Amid Sleeper Cell Threat

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported arresting 11 Iranian nationals on Tuesday, just days after national security officials went on “high alert” for the possibility of sleeper cell attacks in response to U.S. bombs dropped on the country’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Federal...

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There were a lot of "gotaways" during the Biden administration besides all of those unvetted. We will be dealing with the problem for decades.

 

[Gene2memE]

11 people arrested in different cities and states, who don't appear to have any substantive connection to each other apart from being Iranian and arrested.

Several of them are in their 60s, and a couple more are in their 50s. Multiple people with arrests (real 'sleeper cell' activity there) and some who have been in the US for more than a decade on mildly dodgy grounds but otherwise don't appear to have anything more than petty crimes to their records.

Of the 11, there are perhaps three who would appear to be anything approaching a terrorist/sleeper cell threat. Maybe 6 out of the 11 pose an actual threat to anyone.

From the details provided, only one of these Iranian nationals entered into the US during the Biden administration period. More entered during the Trump administration. Heck, one of the entered during the Reagan administration.

 

[ozso]

11 people arrested in different cities and states, who don't appear to have any substantive connection to each other apart from being Iranian and arrested.

Based on all the government intel you have access to?

Several of them are in their 60s, and a couple more are in their 50s. Multiple people with arrests (real 'sleeper cell' activity there) and some who have been in the US for more than a decade on mildly dodgy grounds but otherwise don't appear to have anything more than petty crimes to their records.

Do you think someone in their 60s can't plan, organize and lead etc? Go watch Mission Impossible: Final Reconning (2025). Tom Cruise will be 63 in a couple of weeks. Just like me. And I rather not list what all I'm capable of.

Of the 11, there are perhaps three who would appear to be anything approaching a terrorist/sleeper cell threat. Maybe 6 out of the 11 pose an actual threat to anyone.

Based on whatever limited public info you have access to.

From the details provided, only one of these Iranian nationals entered into the US during the Biden administration period. More entered during the Trump administration. Heck, one of the entered during the Reagan administration.

How many times have they slipped back and forth across the border?

 

[durangodawood]

One of my early summer jobs was assembling bikes for an Iranian bike shop owner. I never thought at the time that "Mo" was short for "Mohammed". I was too young to put 2 and 2 together and recognize a sleeper cell right under my nose!.

 

[ozso]

One of my early summer jobs was assembling bikes for an Iranian bike shop owner. I never thought at the time that "Mo" was short for "Mohammed". I was too young to put 2 and 2 together and recognize a sleeper cell right under my nose!.

So since Mo wasn't a sleeper cell agent, those other guys can't be either? Or is it that it should be obvious when someone is a sleeper cell agent? Like one would never pose as an ordinary shop owner.

 

[durangodawood]

So since Mo wasn't a sleeper cell agent, those other guys can't be either? Or is it that it should be obvious when someone is a sleeper cell agent? Like one would never pose as an ordinary shop owner.

What Im saying is how do we know Mo wasnt a sleeper cell agent? They could be everywhere!

 

[ozso]

What Im saying is how do we know Mo wasnt a sleeper cell agent? They could be everywhere!

Right, the government should come up with some sort of agencies to figure stuff like that out. Maybe call it something like intelligence work.

 

[ozso]

There seems to be the usual they didn't do anything wrong, they're innocent victims, and law enforcement agencies are totally inept and corrupt theme going on over this issue.

 

[Hazelelponi]

We should try and avoid looking at our neighbors with too much suspicion though. There's a lot of Iranian dissidents here too.

We should allow the government to simply do their job. While there's a lot of fear right now, we don't need to allow that to change who we are as a people.

That's always the goal, make you more like them. As a nation and and neighbors we can get through a few terrorists.

I'm glad these people were arrested and glad their cases will be heard. Homan is doing a great job.

 

[Belk]

NEW: ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals Amid Sleeper Cell Threat

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported arresting 11 Iranian nationals on Tuesday, just days after national security officials went on “high alert” for the possibility of sleeper cell attacks in response to U.S. bombs dropped on the country’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Federal...

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There were a lot of "gotaways" during the Biden administration besides all of those unvetted. We will be dealing with the problem for decades.

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[Valletta]

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Please stay on topic.

 

[Valletta]

Homeland Security goes into more detail on the individuals:

"On June 22, ICE Houston officials arrested Behzad Sepehrian Bahary Nejad, an alien with a final order of removal, who was carrying a loaded 9mm pistol at the time of his arrest. Sepehrian entered the U.S. in Houston on Dec. 9, 2016, on an F-1 student visa. On Aug. 19, 2017, Harris County police arrested him for assaulting a family member by impeding breathing; his wife told the local assistant district attorney that Sepehrian was threatening her and obtained a restraining order against him. She also alleged he was threatening her family in Iran. On July 23, 2018, the University of Texas terminated Sepehrian’s status after he was placed on academic suspension. An immigration judge ordered him removed on Oct. 10, 2019, after he was released on an immigration bond; he filed a motion to reopen his case, which a Department of Justice immigration judge denied. Sepehrian is in ICE custody pending removal proceedings".

ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals Illegally in the U.S. Over the Weekend | Homeland Security

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 11 Iranian nationals illegally in the United States over the weekend.

www.dhs.gov

 

[rambot]

Nothing off topic when the paranoia in the thread title is emotionally increased by a source that has 0 credibility.

 

[Belk]

Please stay on topic.

Your questionable source is very on topic.

 

[Desk trauma]

Your questionable source is very on topic.

Even that questionable source doesn’t make any allegations of terrorism connections against the Iranians who were arrested.

 

[rambot]

Pretty sure I've seen a poster COMPLETELY disregard a post from a source as reputable as Washington times because of "bias"

 

[rambot]

Based on all the government intel you have access to?

Do you think someone in their 60s can't plan, organize and lead etc? Go watch Mission Impossible: Final Reconning (2025). Tom Cruise will be 63 in a couple of weeks. Just like me. And I rather not list what all I'm capable of.

Based on whatever limited public info you have access to.

How many times have they slipped back and forth across the border?

And the reporter had proof of exactly what?

 

[rambot]

There seems to be the usual they didn't do anything wrong, they're innocent victims, and law enforcement agencies are totally inept and corrupt theme going on over this issue.

Are they terrorists?

 

[Valletta]

Nothing off topic when the paranoia in the thread title is emotionally increased by a source that has 0 credibility.

This reminds me of our locals here trying time after time to wake Washington up, telling them they needed to follow-up on a Muslim who was taking lessons to fly a jumbo jet but did not want to learn how to land. With over two million gotaways, people detected by drones and sensors who instead of taking all of the freebies, including an airline flight to the city of their choice, decided to evade border authorities. And by the Biden administration authorities, deliberately, claimed the border was safe, secure, and closed. Paranoia? It's common sense This is a huge national security threat.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

I still remember the government trying to label Abrego Garcia as a terrorist.