As a researcher who has spent more than two decades studying counterterrorism and radical Islamist organizations in the Middle East, I want to address the Department of Homeland Security directly — and its new secretary, who understands the nature of the regime ruling Iran. The threat posed by the Islamic Republic on American soil is not hypothetical. Its record reveals an operational pattern of proxy terrorism, criminal recruitment, target surveillance, and assassination plots.
Trump was just the beginning: Iran’s American hit list is real — is DHS ready?
