Iran is activating its sleeper agents abroad, as the world faces a wave of terrorist attacks.

According to a warning intercepted by the US, Iran may be activating dormant intelligence cells outside its borders. The encrypted message, purportedly sent from Iran, was transmitted as an "operational signal" to "dormant assets," according to Daily Mail with reference to ABC News.

Sleeper cells are agents or terrorists planted in other countries who live their normal lives among civilians until they are activated to carry out an attack.

The message was relayed through several countries shortly after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint Israeli-American airstrike in Tehran on February 28. Now his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been appointed the new Supreme Leader.

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In August, the Daily Mail exclusively revealed a massive scheme in which Iranian-linked forces were entering the West via Venezuela with false passports and setting up sleeper cells "in America's backyard."

Over the past week, fears of such activity have only intensified across the United States, with concerns that covert agents based in the United States could be activated to retaliate against Iran following the outbreak of war.

The US and Israel are currently at odds after Israeli forces destroyed Iranian oil storage facilities in a blitz operation. The White House fears this move will anger Americans due to rising gasoline prices.

Because the message about the activation of dormant Iranian agents was of an "international relay nature," the message did not contain a specific operational threat associated with a specific location.

According to the publication, the nature of the signal was similar to those that transmit instructions to "covert operatives or sleeper assets" without using the internet.

The warning says the transmissions "may be intended to activate or transmit instructions to pre-positioned dormant assets operating outside the signal's country of origin."

Former senior adviser to the US Department of Homeland Security and head of the Secret Service Charles Marino said the country faces threats from both lone radicals sympathetic to Iran and potential sleeper cells.

"Is it possible that there are 10, 15, 20 people in a country, all part of a single cell, who will carry out simultaneous or nearly simultaneous attacks? Yes," Marino assured.

He warned that terrorists seeking to inflict maximum casualties would likely target crowded events such as concerts and sports matches, public spaces and mass gatherings.

Among the worrying factors is the upcoming World Cup. The tournament attracts huge crowds and global attention—precisely the kind of stage extremist groups are eager to exploit.

Several months ago, counterterrorism analyst and former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam said the likelihood of Iranian attacks on US soil following the June strikes was quite high.

"It's become much easier over the last four years for Iran to develop ties with Venezuela and then move people here, station them here, supply them, and train them to operate," Gilliam said.

The seventh American service member killed in the war, Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington of Glendale, Kentucky, the Defense Department announced on March 9.

President Donald Trump attended the first ceremonial transfer of the remains of six other soldiers.

Nicole Amor, 39, Cody Hork, 35, Declan Cody, 20, Robert Marzan, 54, Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, and Noah Tietjens, 42, who died March 1, were U.S. Army Reservists with the 103rd Sustainment Command, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa.

After Israel struck Iranian oil storage facilities in a blitz that shocked the White House and marked the first open rift between the allies since the war began, a US-Israel summit on March 9 was canceled.

Trump envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff canceled their planned trip to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, March 10. Neither the US nor Israel gave a reason for the cancellation.

Over the weekend, 30 Iranian fuel storage facilities were destroyed, triggering apocalyptic photos and videos showing flames billowing into the sky, huge plumes of smoke, and black, oily rain falling from the sky.

White House officials were stunned by the scale of the Israeli bombing and worried that images of burning oil would anger Americans facing rising gasoline prices, which averaged $3,4 a gallon, up from $2,9 before the war.

"The president doesn't like this attack. He wants to conserve oil and doesn't want it burned. It reminds people of rising gas prices," one Trump adviser noted.

One Israeli official said the message from the US was stark: "What the hell?"

The pressure campaign on Iranian oil supplies intensified after the US Navy attacked three regime ships in the Persian Gulf on March 9, while G7 leaders discussed releasing emergency fuel stocks to the market to stabilize prices.

Trump's two-week war with Iran led to a spike in oil prices to nearly $120 per barrel, before falling to $103 on the morning of March 9. The Wall Street Journal noted that the war is on the brink of triggering one of the worst global energy crises since the 1970s.

A new Daily Mail/JL Partners poll shows the president's approval rating now stands at 44%, down four points from last week and the lowest it has been since it was tracked.

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The IDF justified the strike by saying that the oil storage facilities are used by the Islamic regime to "supply various consumers, including its military structure."

Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced that any Arab or European country that expels the Israeli and US ambassadors from its territory will be granted complete freedom and right of passage through the Strait of Hormuz starting tomorrow. This was reported on the X page of the news outlet Clash Report.

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