Iranian Officials Confirm Tehran Preparing To Target US Diplomats, Personnel
By The Media Line Staff
Two senior Iranian officials confirmed that Tehran is preparing to target US diplomats and personnel, supporting US intelligence warnings about increased Iranian efforts to attack Americans in the Middle East and elsewhere, The New York Times reported Saturday.
One unnamed official is a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The officials told the Times that such tactics are “fair game” given US and Israeli targeting of Iranian officials.
Their comments follow a memo Friday from US national intelligence chief Jay Clayton to Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that Iran has “substantially increased” its efforts to target Americans in the Middle East and beyond.
CNN separately reported that Washington is accelerating the evacuation of some diplomatic personnel and their families from missions across the Middle East over concerns about a regional escalation.
An official evacuation order covers non-essential staff and their families in Saudi Arabia, according to CNN. Washington is also quietly reducing personnel at its embassies in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
A US official told Fox News Digital that the government continually monitors and assesses changing security threats.
“When it comes to our staffing at embassies, we constantly evaluate new information about the security environment,” the official said. “The threat of Houthi attacks and of Iranian terror plots targeting US officials are informing our decisions on staffing adjustments for embassies on RO Status in the region.”
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