Posted on 03/07/2024 7:36:16 AM PST by bitt
We have been warning for some time about the danger of the Iranians and their surrogates like Hezbollah using Venezuela as a launching pad for attacks inside the United States. That possibility is particularly troubling given the number of Venezuelan passport holders this administration has allowed into the country. We don’t need to speculate about this threat anymore, however. It is no longer a possibility. It is happening.video
The FBI field office in Miami has issued a public alert seeking information on Majid Dastjani Farahani. According to the FBI, Farahani is an Iranian intelligence officer who is in the United States plotting to assassinate current and former American officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Per the FBI’s statement on Friday, Farahani is actively recruiting “individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former USG officials.” Farahani is also accused of recruiting individuals to surveil religious sites, businesses, and other facilities in the United States. That suggests strongly that he is not here simply to hit a single target but is setting up infrastructure to support multiple attacks.
Farahani is not some rogue operative or want-to-be hitman. He speaks multiple languages including Spanish. He travels frequently between Iran and Venezuela. This is a seasoned operator, and he is apparently well down the road to carrying out attacks on our soil.
This, of course, is not occurring in isolation. The FBI has known for a long time that Iranian operatives are working on our soil targeting Iranian dissidents and seeking to kill U.S officials:
The Department of Justice convicted an Iranian operative in 2011 of working with Mexican drug cartels to attempt to assassinate Saudi
Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, while he dined at a Georgetown restaurant.
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In some ways we have been hit - just not a major figure, thankfully for that I suppose.
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