“This is probably the worst violence that the regime has extracted on its people since the revolution,” Roman said, referring to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. “Air strikes would be one of the many, many options that are on the table for the commander in chief,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday, adding, “Diplomacy is always the first option for the president.” “But I think that the biggest thing that Iran did not activate in the June war, which they can do, is to activate their sleeper cells that they have that can target American embassies, synagogues—more soft targets that are not in Israeli territory, that are not U.S. bases in the region, but can hit the soft civilian underbelly of Western countries,” Roman said.
Author: Virginia Allen
Published at: 2026-01-12 22:27:00
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