Matthew Levitt
American academic
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It seems like a poor decision to provide terrorist groups with a video clip they can effectively splice into radicalization propaganda,
- Levitt told Fox News DigitalFox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/veteran…
Perhaps this is the new normal, and Iran wants to demonstrate that it can exact a higher cost,
- Levitt saidFox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/iran…
Typically Iran does not admit that it's involved in these types of attacks because it wants reasonable deniability,
- Levitt saidFox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/iran…
Once the war ends, the threat is maybe not as immediately acute, but it’ll hang over us,
- Levitt saidGuardiantheguardian.com/world/2026…
When the FBI asked him, under what circumstances would he expect to be called upon to act on the pre-operational surveillance he’d done all over New York City and elsewhere, he said definitely if the United States was ever in direct conflict with Iran,
- said Levitt, who testified in the caseGuardiantheguardian.com/world/2026…
The fact that many of the plots do not seem particularly capable doesn’t mean that they won’t ultimately succeed,
- argued Levitt, the author of a detailed study, entitled Tehran’s Homeland OptionGuardiantheguardian.com/world/2026…
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