President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice claimed that terrorists embedded in the United States “could be activated” as Iran inches toward conflict with the U.S.

Rice argued in a column that President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani made Iranian attacks against Americans inevitable. She wrote in the New York Times: “Despite President Trump’s oft-professed desire to avoid war with Iran and withdraw from military entanglements in the Middle East, his decision to order the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s second most important official, as well as Iraqi leaders of an Iranian-backed militia, now locks our two countries in a dangerous escalatory cycle that will likely lead to wider warfare.”