AMBASSADOR (RET.) YORAM ETTINGER -- According to the West Point Center for Combatting Terrorism: “Iran and its proxies have spent years investing in a ‘homeland option’ in the US.
In just the past five years, US authorities have disrupted at least 17 Iranian plots in the homeland.... In its 2025 Threat Assessment, the Director of National Intelligence assessed that Iran “will continue to directly threaten US persons globally and remains committed to its decade-long effort to develop surrogate networks inside the US....
The Department of Homeland Security’s 2025 Threat Assessment [and the FBI] concurred, reporting ‘we expect Iran to remain the primary sponsor of terrorism and continue its efforts to advance plots against individuals - including current and former US officials - in the US.' Such plots have been on the rise in recent years.... In early 2024..., a network of [Iranian] individuals targeted Iranian dissidents and opposition activists [in the US] for assassination at the direction of the Iranian regime.... According to the FBI, Hezbollah has maintained a presence in the US since at least 1987.”
*Notwithstanding the 47-year-record of repeated US negotiation with the Ayatollah regime; irrespective of the hundreds of billions of dollars showered upon the Ayatollah regime; and in defiance of the 47-year-economic sanctions imposed by the US; the Ayatollah regime has systematically adhered to its 1,400-year-old apocalyptic and megalomaniacal anti-US ideology.