Iranian attack on US soil likely with thousands of vengeful sleeper cells in country: Not a matter of if but when

Iran could attack Americans with “thousands” of sleeper cells hiding across the country, along with innovative drone assaults never before seen in the country, a former top-US fighter pilot cautioned after intelligence reports suggested strikes on California were possible.“It’s not a matter of if — it’s a matter of when,” retired TOPGUN Navy fighter pilot Matthew “Whiz” Buckley told The Post, warning that Americans were vulnerable to Iranians hungry to retaliate after the US killed its supreme leader and unleashed war across the Middle East.Chief among the dangers are scores of Iranian agents who “likely” slipped into the US over the southern border and could be lying in wait for orders to strike from handlers in Tehran, Buckley said.“There is probably thousands, if not tens of thousands of Iranian agents and sleeper cells in this country,” he said, adding that sources in Customs and Border Patrol have ominously told him: “You wouldn’t believe how many Korans and prayer rugs we find in the desert.”“These people are here,” Buckley said.“So not only do we have potential lone wolf or homegrown terrorists, but we have actual Iranian agents in this country.”Buckley’s warning comes after the FBI issued a notice to California law enforcement in late February that Iran could be plotting a drone attack on the state in retaliation for the US-Israeli attack on Tehran, which left despotic Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nearly 50 of his top officials dead.And while the White House has refuted the danger of those drone warnings — press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted they were based on “unverified intelligence” and that there was no real threat — Buckley said the Americans would still be wise to “keep your head on a swivel.”“If I were [Iran], I’d be hitting us in our homeland, to bring the pain home to us,” he said.

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