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IRGC Sleeper Cells: The Inside Story

CONFLICTED

An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

As all sides in the Iran War escalate their attacks, another spectre looms on the horizon: Iran-backed sleeper cell agents across the world launching terrorist attacks against strategic assets — including in the West. Aimen opens the lid on this little-known dimension of the IRGC's activity.

Aimen and Thomas discuss:

 How the U.S. will deal with the problem of Bandar Abbas before launching an amphibious assault on islands in the Gulf

 The recent escalation: the Houthis join the war, an AWACS plane destroyed in Saudi Arabia, a desalination plant attacked in Kuwait

 The history of the sleeper cell as a tool of revolutionary subversion

 The five types of Iranian sleeper cell

 Aimen's experience embedded in sleeper cells as a double agent

 How Iranian sleeper cells launder money

 The prevalence of sleeper cells in South America

 Aimen's work investigating the finances of sleeper cells

 How London restaurants are secret IRGC fronts

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