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The Cenla Report ICE detains 11 Iranian migrants, among them suspected terrorists, with arrests in #Mississippi and #Alabama. Border Patrol warns of ‘possible sleeper’ cells. Among those arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Sunday, June 22, is Mehran Makari Sahel, at his home near St. Paul, Minnesota. ICE officials say Sahel is a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an elite a branch of Iran's armed forces. They said the detainee has "admitted connections to Hezbollah," a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization backed by Iran. Roughly four months after the Iranian foreign national was added to the U.S. known or suspected terrorist list in February, he was apprehended by federal agents Sunday in central Mississippi, just outside of Jackson. While arresting Ribvar Karmi in northern Alabama on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security says federal agents found an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card on his person. According to ICE officials, Karimi purportedly served as an Iranian Army sniper from 2018 to 2021 and entered the U.S. in October 2024 on a K-1 visa, reserved for migrants engaged to be married to American citizens.