When jihadists become desperate, striving for “martyrdom” becomes more urgent for them.

Last month, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center warned:

The chairman of Iran’s “Intifada and International Quds Day Headquarters” claimed that the view of the founder of the Islamic Revolution, who characterized Israel as a “cancerous tumor,” has now spread throughout the world and that the Palestinian issue has become the main issue on the international agenda.

Israel and the U.S. are now pounding the Islamic Republic of Iran from the air, and threatening its very survival, which makes it urgent for the regime to escalate its jihad, including use of its globally scattered proxies, as we saw with the arson attack on the ambulances of a Jewish volunteer service in the UK.

The Islamic Republic has been a main funder of the Palestinian “resistance” movement, which went global after October 7, 2023, along with the “globalize the intifada” movement. The now-deceased Ayatollah Khamenei hailed the “resistance” on American campuses, which further signals the regime’s focus on the U.S.:

It is also significant that the Palestinian Authority requires Muslim preachers to praise jihadists as heroes in Friday sermons. More about the threat assessment to America is highlighted below.

“The Iran inspired and orchestrated violence and Terror Activity in the US: Long Present Now Exposed”, by Steven Stalinsky, MEMRI, March 20, 2026:

Iran’s calls of “Death to America” over the past 47 years of its Islamic regime have never been mere rhetoric. U.S. intelligence agencies have long warned that Tehran’s ideological messaging and covert networks could inspire or enable attacks inside the U.S.

The threat has only grown in recent years, as more operatives have been dispatched to the U.S. to scope out targets and even set up educational and religious institutions to spread Iran’s Islamic revolutionary ideology. Outreach to student groups has been ramped up, as have efforts to influence U.S. domestic policy.

Now, as the regime faces the biggest threat in its history, and its top armed forces spokesman Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi warns that “parks, recreational areas, and tourist destinations” will not be safe for Iran’s enemies anywhere, the Iranian regime’s loyalists across the U.S. are publicly displaying their support for the regime, its leaders, and its ideology. This includes memorials for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei held at Islamic centers that Iran help to create and through its disinformation campaign all across social media.

According to the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, released March 18, “the most likely terrorist attack scenario in the Homeland involves U.S.-based lone offenders” – and that Iran has “proven capable of developing lethal operations against Americans at home and abroad and probably will attempt to pursue such efforts again if the current [Iranian] government remains in power and is able to rebuild.”

President Trump said that he had been briefed on Iranian sleeper cells and that “we know where most of them are, we’ve got our eye on all of them.” This follows a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence assessment dated March 1, 2026, that Iran and/or its proxies could carry out retaliatory attacks against the U.S. for the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei. It also warned that Iranian networks and affiliated cyber actors could pursue targeted violence or cyber retaliation.

A DHS National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletin published in June 2025 addressed a “heightened threat environment” due to U.S. military activity against Iran. Warning about possible “low-level cyber attacks against U.S. networks by pro-Iranian hacktivists” and that “cyber actors affiliated with the Iranian government may conduct attacks against U.S. networks,” it went on to underline Iran’s “long-standing commitment” to target U.S. government officials it views as responsible for the 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC’s elite Qods Force that operates outside the borders of Iran…

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Christine Douglass-Williams

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