- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials must assume that hundreds of Iranian-funded and directed terrorist operatives with Hamas, Hezbollah, and similar groups are in the United States and can carry out lethal attacks across this country as soon as Iran gives them the green light, according to witnesses testifying in an Oct. 25 House Committee on Homeland Security hearing.
- Committee Chairman Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) asked former Ambassador Nathan Sales, “What guarantees do we have” that Hamas and other Iranian-backed terrorists aren’t among the more than 1.7 million illegal immigrant “gotaways” that have crossed the southern U.S. border since 2021.
- “I don’t think we have any guarantees, Mr. Chairman. I think we have to assume the worst,” Mr. Sales replied. “We know that Iranian-linked terrorists have been found in the United States.
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Hamas, Hezbollah Terrorists In US, Waiting For Iran’s Green Light To Attack: House Testimony
Prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack from Gaza on Israel, "128 Hezbollah operatives have been arrested here over the years by the FBI."
