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Fox & Friends brought on Middle East Forum strategist Jim Hanson to cut through the noise and name the “usual suspects” behind the surge of pro-Iran demonstrations that have been sweeping campuses and city streets. Hanson warned that what looks like spontaneous outrage is too often a well-orchestrated campaign with ugly ties to foreign actors and radical groups, and Americans should treat it as a national security problem, not a campus protest.
The intelligence community has quietly confirmed that Tehran isn’t watching from afar — it has been actively funding and stoking anti-Israel and pro-regime demonstrations inside the United States, according to the Director of National Intelligence’s own warnings. That’s not partisan rhetoric; it’s an admission from the top of the intelligence apparatus that hostile foreign influence is trying to manipulate our public square.
Worse still, DHS reporting and major outlets have revealed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has employed criminal networks — even biker gangs like the Hells Angels — to threaten dissidents and carry out hostile operations overseas and on Western soil. This is not theatrical hyperbole; it is evidence that a foreign regime views our cities as a battlefield and is willing to outsource violence to achieve its ends.
Investigations have traced these influence operations through a maze of ostensibly charitable foundations, academic programs, and community organizations that quietly transmit cash, messaging, and manpower to amplify Tehran’s agenda. The Dispatch and other serious outlets have laid out how regime-linked institutes and proxies have long cultivated influence inside universities and civic institutions, making parts of our cultural elite unwitting accomplices.
Patriotic Americans should be furious that our institutions have become breeding grounds for foreign meddling and radical agitation, yet political elites respond with excuses and sanctimony instead of action. Law enforcement must get the intelligence, legal tools, and political backing to root out foreign-directed networks, while colleges must be held accountable for allowing campuses to become staging grounds for hostile influence.
This moment demands clarity and courage: secure our borders, cut off foreign money flowing into domestic agitation, sanction the Iranian operators and their enablers, and enforce the rule of law without fear or favor. Fox viewers and every patriotic citizen should demand that Washington stop pretending these are merely “protests” and start treating them as the malign influence campaigns they are — because the safety of our communities and the integrity of our republic depend on it.
