The United States has reduced personnel from Middle Eastern embassies as intelligence officials warned that Iran had ‘substantially increased efforts to target US personnel’ in an unclassified memo.
The October 23 memo was sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, who said the intelligence had been received ‘through various channels,’ though he did not elaborate.
‘The lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against US citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries,’ Clayton wrote in the one-page memo, which was first reported by Axios.
A US official confirmed the memo
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