Iran threatened to activate US sleeper cells in response to any strike on nuclear sites – report

Iran communicated to US President Donald Trump several days ago that it could activate sleeper-cells to attack the American homeland in response to a strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, NBC reports.

The message made its way to the US president during the G7 summit in Canada last week, which Trump left early amid the conflict in Iran, several days before American fighter jets bombed several of Iran’s nuclear facilities early Sunday.

Neither the White House nor the Iranian Mission to the UN respond to requests for comment on the NBC report, which cites two US officials and a person with knowledge of the threat.

US Vice President JD Vance told NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier that the White House is examining the threat of a homeland attack “very closely.”

A European diplomat tells NBC that the US and its allies believe Iran has the ability to attack American and European nationals “beyond U.S. soil and beyond the Middle East.”