A former
FBI boss has issued a stark warning over fears
Iran could activate sleeper agents in the US to carry out terror attacks on American soil as vengeance for Saturday's bombardment.
Chris Swecker, an assistant FBI director in the mid-2000s, said Hezbollah and other Iran-linked groups may feel they have nothing left to lose after Trump unleashed
Operation Epic Fury this weekend.
Swecker told the Daily Mail: 'We've got a cornered animal here, and if ever we're going to see attacks on the United States, this would be the catalyst for that.'
'It's a tinder box right now,' Swecker said. 'You've got the leadership of Iran in a state of desperation.'
He added that while Iran-linked sleeper cells may previously have hesitated out of fear of US retaliation, that might no longer be the case after the joint US and
Israeli strikes this weekend.
He urged the FBI and the intelligence community to 'be on their toes' and 'assume there are plans ongoing' for a terror attack in the US.