Catherine Perez-Shakdam's Engagement with Iran

Her personal motivations for the infiltration, as she later articulated, stemmed from a growing resentment and a feeling that her children's identity was being stripped in Yemen, coupled with a perceived rise in antisemitism and the spread of an ideology she described as a "cancer." She viewed her undercover work as a means to understand the threat posed by Iran's influence, likening it to a form of "colonization through indoctrination."