Professor of Strategic Management and Human Capital Development Okey Ikechukwu has suggested that the United States may be dangerously underestimating Iran’s global reach.
Speaking in an interview with Channels TV, the professor alleged that Tehran has sleeper cells positioned across the world including inside America itself.
“America is overlooking the fact that Iran has the capacity to activate all manner of sleeper cells all over the world — particularly within America itself. So there could be quite some mischief that they are not anticipating. This is not something that is about to end, and no prediction can be made about whether it will be five weeks, five months, or five years,” he said.
Ikechukwu highlighted that the financial cost of the conflict was another dimension that deserved serious attention, recalling that the Gulf War was burning through roughly one billion dollars a day at its peak — and that was a far more contained engagement.
He explained that the economic ripple effects of this conflict would be visible over time, even if Americans were not feeling the full weight of them yet. He also pointed out that President Trump appeared to have taken on far more than any one leader could realistically manage at once.