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President Trump said the quiet part out loud this week, and the establishment is predictably pretending they did not hear it. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the President confirmed that U.S. authorities are actively monitoring Iranian “sleeper cells” believed to have entered the country in recent years — many of them, he said, courtesy of the Biden administration’s open-border disaster. “I have been briefed, and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border,” Trump told Fox News’ Peter Doocy. “But we know where most of them are. We’ve got our eye on all of them.” That is the kind of blunt, no-nonsense transparency Americans have been starving for. No diplomatic hedging. No bureaucratic double-speak. Just the truth: hostile foreign operatives are on American soil, and the previous administration’s negligence helped put them here.
The threat from Iran is not theoretical. It is not a think-tank talking point or a cable news hypothetical. As Fox News reported, Western security officials are growing increasingly alarmed about Iranian intelligence activities targeting critics abroad, and the networks extend well beyond America’s borders. In Canada, senior Conservative lawmakers are now openly accusing the Liberal government of allowing hundreds of Iranian regime officials to remain in the country despite identifying them years ago. Deputy Conservative leader Melissa Lantsman and immigration shadow minister Michelle Rempel issued a blistering statement revealing that 239 Iranian regime-linked individuals had their visas canceled — yet only one person has been deported. One. Out of 239. The excuses from Ottawa sound depressingly familiar: legal obstacles, asylum claims, privacy protections, no direct flights to Iran. Every bureaucratic loophole imaginable has been exploited to keep regime operatives comfortable in a Western democracy while they continue their work.
The human cost of this negligence is not abstract. Masood Masjoody, an Iranian dissident and mathematician who fled the regime’s persecution, vanished earlier this year in Burnaby, British Columbia. Canadian investigators believe he was likely murdered, according to The Guardian. The investigation remains ongoing, but for Canada’s Iranian diaspora community, the disappearance confirms what they have been warning about for years: Tehran’s reach does not stop at its own borders. The Islamic Republic tracks, intimidates, and — when it deems necessary — eliminates its critics wherever they live. Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the faces of Iran’s “Girls of Revolution Street” protests who now lives in exile in Canada, told Fox News Digital that the presence of regime agents “is not a new issue” and that their activities have become “more visible” in recent months, with gatherings organized under anti-war slogans while expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, the media establishment tried to stoke panic with a reckless ABC News report claiming the FBI had warned that Iran intended to attack California with offensive drones. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded an immediate retraction, pointing out that the original FBI alert was based on a single, unverified tip — a fact ABC conveniently omitted. “TO BE CLEAR: No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did,” Leavitt wrote. The FBI’s own Assistant Director for Public Affairs confirmed that the word “unverified” was stripped from ABC’s reporting. This is not journalism. It is fearmongering dressed in a press badge, designed to undermine public confidence in the administration’s handling of national security at the exact moment when that confidence matters most.
Exiled Iranian journalist Mehdi Ghadimi painted an even more troubling picture of how regime operatives embed themselves in Western countries. Some arrive as students or academics but maintain ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps through family connections or ideological loyalty. Others operate through financial networks, investing millions of dollars that almost certainly require IRGC approval to move out of Iran. “If someone is moving large amounts of money out of Iran and investing abroad, it is very difficult to do that without the approval of the IRGC and the security institutions of the Islamic Republic,” Ghadimi told Fox News Digital. The infiltration is systematic, well-funded, and has been tolerated for far too long by governments more concerned with diplomatic appearances than the safety of their own citizens.
There is a Biblical principle at work here that the secular world struggles to understand. Proverbs 25:26 says, “A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well.” When free nations allow tyrants to operate freely within their borders — when they prioritize procedural niceties over the protection of their people — they pollute the very freedoms they claim to defend. President Trump understands this. His administration is watching, tracking, and preparing to act. The question is whether America’s allies, particularly Canada, will find the spine to do the same, or whether they will continue making excuses while regime operatives operate in broad daylight. The Department of Homeland Security remains unfunded as these threats mount, with Democrats blocking funding votes even as synagogues are attacked on American soil. The irony would be laughable if the stakes were not measured in human lives.
When our closest ally cannot even deport known regime operatives, how confident should we be that the threat has truly been contained?
Providence watches over the bold.
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