Five Iranians nabbed at US northern border as terror fears grip small towns
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A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Tuesday that five individuals from Iran were detained while trying to enter the U.S. from Canada illegally.

“On July 1, agents from the Champlain, New York Station responded to unusual activity reported near Mooers Forks, NY,” said CBP’s Swanton Sector on Facebook. “They discovered a minivan carrying five Iranian nationals and two Uzbeks.”

The Champlain Station is part of the Swanton Sector. Swanton is a rural town in Vermont near Highway 89 just south of the Canadian Border. 

Map of U.S.-Canada border

The map illustrates the locations of Champlain, New York, and Swanton, Vermont, connected by a black line representing the U.S.-Canada border. (Google Maps)

summer view church in rolling vermont hills

The Stowe Community Church surrounded by green forest and mountain, Vermont, United States. Photo taken in August 2023. (Getty Images)

Gilliam pointed to the Biden administration’s border policies as a reason for concern.

“They could even go to the border and say they [want to] seek asylum, and the Biden administration, instead of putting them into DHS housing or ICE housing and holding them there so they could have their first appearance. To be vetted and whether or not they get asylum,” he said. 

In a 2023 terrorism report released by the State Department in December of last year, the federal government outlined numerous instances of worrying behavior by Iranian nationals in western countries. 

“In 2023 the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three individuals connected with Iran in a plot to assassinate an Iranian dissident in New York City,” that report said. “Also in 2023, a United Kingdom court found a man guilty of attempting to collect information for terrorist purposes on the London-based Iran International, a media company that is critical of the Iranian regime.” 

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei image on the wall during a pro-Iran demonstration

Iranian worshippers hold up their hands as signs of unity with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during an anti-Israeli rally to condemn Israel’s attacks on Iran, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on June 20, 2025.  (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“In recent years, Albania, Belgium, and the Netherlands have all either arrested, convicted, or expelled Iranian government officials implicated in various terrorist plots in their respective territories. Denmark similarly recalled its ambassador from Tehran after learning of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian dissident in that country.”

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