I hate to say “I told you so,” but… Well, actually, no, I don’t mind saying “I told you so.” I’ve been saying, and writing, for years about the dangers posed by unchecked, unvetted illegal immigration and non-enforcement of our immigration laws, including national security implications.
Now, on Tuesday, we have another example of “I told you so” with the arrest of at least five Iranian nationals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At least five more Iranian nationals were arrested on Monday in addition to the 11 announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday morning.
On Monday, 45-year-old Mohammad Hassanpoor was arrested by officers in Baltimore and given a “Third County Notice.” He was previously criminally convicted of “assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury,” where he was sentenced to just under a year behind bars.
He was also previously sentenced roughly three months behind bars for “battery: spouse/ex sp/date/etc.” and sentenced to two years for stalking.
Note that this goblin wasn’t arrested on charges of terrorism, but he is nevertheless in custody for some very serious crimes. And he has company:
Kaveh Abedi, 45, was arrested in Chicago on Monday for “violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act” and had a 2001 conviction for selling cocaine.
Arish Rustami was also arrested and has a prior sex offense, and Abdolmohammad Raghibzadeh was taken into ICE custody on Monday. He’s had a deportation order since November 2005 from an Arizona immigration judge, and he’s currently an Iranian citizen, according to ICE.
In 1999, he previously faced arrests for “domestic violence, vandalism and intimidation” and faced 90 days behind bars and five years of probation as a result. He faced two other arrests and jail time for “violations of probation of the previous crimes.”
These are bad guys, and if an Iranian operator contacted them and quietly “suggested” they carry out some act of terror on behalf of the old country, how likely is it that they would do so? That’s impossible to say, but a certain percentage of these goblins likely would, and there are thousands more just like these five. Hundreds of Iranian nationals entered the United States unhindered during the Biden(‘s autopen) administration, and those are just the ones we know about.
There may be many, many more: Some years ago, a young man of Hispanic extraction (and a U.S. citizen) mentioned to me that if Iran or another Middle Eastern nation wished to smuggle operatives into the United States, it would be a smart thing to teach them Spanish and have them pose as illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala or Honduras. And there are millions of people from Latin America, even now, still illegally in the United States.
Earlier on Tuesday, my colleague Bob Hoge gave us some more information on the possibility of Iranian sleeper cells being in the United States right now:
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ICE Nabs Over a Dozen Iranian Nationals As Concern Over Sleeper Cells Deepens
If pressed, I’d have to say it’s not a matter of “if” there are Iranian sleeper cells in the United States. It’s a near-certainty that there are. The Iranian leaders are evil, but they aren’t stupid, and they have this whole “asymmetric warfare” thing down pretty well. We saw a brutal example of that on October 7th, 2023, when Iran’s Hamas proxies attacked Israel, and it’s not a matter of “if” we see it here, it’s “when.”
And, yes, once more: I told you so.
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