Federal and local officials have announced more patrols, counterterrorism measures and heightened monitoring
Government officials across the US have taken new security measures because of fears that Iran, or its supporters, may launch attacks on targets in America to retaliate for the US and Israel’s bombing of the country.
Federal and local public officials have announced that they have taken steps such as increasing law enforcement patrols to prevent any attack, which could come directly from the Iranian regime or a lone actor, security experts said.
“If there were ever a time when Iran would want to put into place all the different capabilities it’s built up over these years as off-the-shelf operational planning … now would be it,” said Matthew Levitt, director of the counter-terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
After the US attacked Iran on 28 February, Kash Patel, the FBI director, posted on X that he had instructed “counterterrorism and intelligence teams to be on high alert and mobilize all assisting security assets needed”.
