IRGC Sleeper Cells: The Inside Story

As all sides in the Iran War escalate their attacks, another spectre looms on the horizon: Iran-backed sleeper cell agents across the world launching terrorist attacks against strategic assets — including in the West. Aimen opens the lid on this little-known dimension of the IRGC's activity.

Aimen and Thomas discuss:

• How the U.S. will deal with the problem of Bandar Abbas before launching an amphibious assault on islands in the Gulf
• The recent escalation: the Houthis join the war, an AWACS plane destroyed in Saudi Arabia, a desalination plant attacked in Kuwait
• The history of the sleeper cell as a tool of revolutionary subversion
• The five types of Iranian sleeper cell
• Aimen's experience embedded in sleeper cells as a double agent
• How Iranian sleeper cells launder money
• The prevalence of sleeper cells in South America
• Aimen's work investigating the finances of sleeper cells
• How London restaurants are secret IRGC fronts

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