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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