The FBI has issued a chilling warning to Americans as fears grow Iran will strike the US through its terrorist proxies.
FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams are on elevated alert across the country, according to an agency official.
Terrorism fears are surging in the wake of Donald Trump‘s military strikes on Iran, as reports circulate that the Islamic regime’s supreme leader was killed.
Iran uses a network of proxy militant groups around the globe to carry out violent attacks against Western countries.
The FBI did not say how long the terror alert will remain in effect. Meanwhile, Kristi Noem said Homeland Security is ‘in direct coordination with our federal intelligence and law enforcement partners as we continue to closely monitor and thwart any potential threats to the homeland.’
Under orders from the president, the US military launched Tomahawk missiles on Iran in a joint operation with Israel, deploying Air Force and Navy jets. Iran responded to the aggression by launching ‘revenge strikes’ on US military bases across the Middle East.
Tehran has struck the Fifth Fleet service center in Manama, Bahrain, and claims to have hit bases across the region including in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
The Iranians are also using kamikaze drones to strike residential buildings and airports in the Middle East. Footage emerged on Saturday morning showing an Iranian drone crashing into a high-rise apartment building in Bahrain.
The president warned that US troops could lose their lives, adding that ‘we may have casualties.’ Casualties from Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases remain unclear.
FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams are on elevated alert across the country following Trump’s strikes on Iran
The Iranians are also using kamikaze drones to strike residential buildings and airports in the Middle East
Iran uses a network of proxy militant groups around the globe to carry out violent attacks against Western countries
Trump was reportedly warned by his top military advisers that Iran could respond to strikes with terror attacks with proxies on US soil.
The president grew frustrated during the planning process to strike Tehran when his generals could not assure him that the risk of U.S. casualties would remain low.
Trump is already facing fierce political backlash for pulling the US into a new war in the Middle East.
Conservative podcasting titan Tucker Carlson branded Trump’s attack ‘absolutely disgusting and evil’ as the president’s MAGA base fractured.
Carlson’s break with Trump signals the decision to go to war with Iran could carry legacy-defining consequences for the president.
Trump won the 2024 presidential election with a campaign advocating against regime change wars in the Middle East.
Trump, moreover, slammed ‘so-called nation builders’ during an investment conference in Saudi Arabia last May, adding they ‘wrecked far more nations than they built.’
US missiles reportedly struck the living quarters of Iran’s supreme leader
‘And the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand,’ Trump claimed at the time.
Now regime-change and nation building has become the central focus of the Trump administration’s foreign policy.
The number of US and Iranian casualties following Saturday’s military attacks in the Middle East remains unknown at the moment.
