SSCI Preview – Know Who is Going to Say What

The hearing takes place against a backdrop of active military conflict. Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure, has reshaped the intelligence environment in ways that the Intelligence Community has not yet fully processed, let alone translated into reliable assessments. Iran has not responded with the mass-casualty attack that many analysts predicted. It has instead activated a layered, distributed pressure campaign — maritime, cyber, proxy, and potential homeland — that defies the binary deterrence logic of previous administrations.
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IRGC in Latin America – The Invisible Axis

The cooperation these networks provide to Tehran is not merely financial. They provide operational depth — a persistent forward presence in the Western Hemisphere through which Iran can, when required, project lethal capability toward the United States. The physical proximity of cartel smuggling routes to the US border means the infrastructure for that calculation already exists in the Americas.
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IRGC in the Middle East – The Axis of Resistance

The “Axis of Resistance” is, in operational terms, a distributed force-multiplication architecture: a constellation of armed Non-State Actors stretching from the Lebanese Mediterranean coast through Gaza, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, each receiving Iranian weapons, financing, training, and strategic direction in exchange for serving as kinetic instruments of Iranian regional policy.
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The Iranian Plot to Bomb a Washington Restaurant – Dead Drop Intel

The 2011 Arbabsiar plot is the most important single data point in understanding the realistic potential for an Iranian-directed terrorist attack on the United States homeland. It is not important because it succeeded. It is important because it failed for exactly one reason: the Mexican cartel contact that Mansoor Arbabsiar recruited to carry out the operation was a DEA informant. Remove that one contingency and the plan proceeds.
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