They’re laying the groundwork. 11 Iranian nationals arrested across 7 states in a single weekend, ICE claims they’re “criminals,” DHS says 2 are IRGC. Yet not a single terrorism indictment, no weapons cache, no operational cell, just overstays, minor felonies, mismatched IDs, and one woman threatening ICE herself. This is all stage prep.
Start with “Ribvar Karimi.” That name doesn’t exist in Iranian Persian. It’s a Kurdish placeholder, designed for foreign ears, not internal coherence. DHS says he was an IRGC sniper from 2018 to 2021, but when arrested, he was carrying an Iranian Army (Artesh) ID. Which is not only a contradiction, it’s a structural impossibility.
IRGC and Artesh don’t share command, logistics, or identification. You don’t “retire” from Sepāh and keep an Artesh badge. It’s like catching a Navy SEAL with a Coast Guard ID: you didn’t uncover a sleeper, you stitched together a persona.
Another arrest was Saheli, a man they frame as IRGC with “links to Hezbollah.” No charge, and no plot. Just a past firearms conviction and ICE custody. The rest? A man who entered in 1981. A guy busted for petty theft in the 1990s. One overstayed since 2016. One had a 9mm pistol. Another was arrested for marriage fraud. This is a visa sweep, dressed up as homeland defense.
The timing is too perfect. After they failed to break Iran through bunker-busters, so now they move to narrative saturation: staged threats, seeded confusion, and plausible domestic “triggers” for future escalation.
This is pure information warfare. No FTO charges, just press-release psyops passed to soft-Zionist media to prime fear without evidence.
You don’t build a sleeper cell profile by arresting 11 men from 7 different cities, spanning 40 years of immigration history, and retrofitting their bios to match headlines.
They’re not exposing a threat. They’re trying to fabricate one, so when the next detonation hits, they can point back and say, “We warned you.