Saturday, February 28, 2026

Iranian agents

For decades I have heard dark warnings that Iran has sleeper cells in the USA waiting for the word to do something.(*) I guess now we find out how many are ready. Or perhaps, how many are prepared to act before they discover whether their erstwhile paymasters are still in business.

(*) Not with hard evidence, just with "It's obvious that they would." And it is obvious that they'd want to try, but I'm not expert on how supply, command, and control would work on a decades-long insertion. It's probably way cheaper to fund existing networks than to create your own; though you lose the "control" part.

5 comments:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

There she is again. Next it will be a "work at home for Google" ad.

james said...

Great :-(

Grim said...

I wouldn’t worry too much about sleeper agents. They won’t be getting any orders from a chain of command that’s mostly dead already.

My spam filter has been highly effective at getting the comments about buying stuff or working from home. She has gotten a few anodyne comments past it.

james said...

There seem to be some freelancers around though, as in Austin.

Grim said...

If they want to try Texas, best of luck. Austin is as good as that gets.