{"id":19520,"date":"2026-03-03T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-gov-abbott-warns-iranian-sleeper-cells-must-be-taken-seriously\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:22:19","slug":"texas-gov-abbott-warns-iranian-sleeper-cells-must-be-taken-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-gov-abbott-warns-iranian-sleeper-cells-must-be-taken-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Abbott warns Iranian \u2018sleeper cells\u2019 must be taken \u2018seriously\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday warned that the possibility of Iranian &ldquo;sleeper cells&rdquo; is being &ldquo;seriously&rdquo; evaluated in the Lone Star state. Sleeper cells are foreign actors who live under the radar until called on to carry out a mission or attack.  In Texas&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5764133-texas-governor-warns-iranian-sleeper-cells\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday warned that the possibility of Iranian &ldquo;sleeper cells&rdquo; is being &ldquo;seriously&rdquo; evaluated in the Lone Star state. Sleeper cells are foreign actors who live under the radar until called on to carry out a mission or attack. In Texas&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}