Breaking News: Iran is ‘activating sleeper cells outside the country,’ intercepted alert says…see more

The message was transmitted across multiple countries shortly after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was obliterated in a joint Israeli-US airstrike in Tehran on February 28.

Preliminary signals analysis has led the US to believe the message was ‘likely of Iranian origin,’ and was sent to ‘clandestine recipients,’ who have a passcode.

According to the outlet, the alert’s nature was similar to that which imparts instructions to ‘covert operatives or sleeper assets’ without the use of the internet.

The transmissions ‘be intended to activate or provide instructions to prepositioned sleeper assets operating outside the originating country,’ ABC News said.