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Even earlier a U.S. airstrike "obliterated" a trio of Iranian atomic facilities implicit the weekend, the country's extremist Islamist authorities was already leveling decease threats and allegedly plotting assassinations connected American soil.
Federal authorities person called Iran the world's largest authorities sponsor of terror, and the FBI says the Iranian authorities has some imprisoned Americans wrong its territory connected unsubstantiated charges and harassed and adjacent killed dissidents successful exile.
"Iran's atomic enrichment facilities person been wholly and wholly obliterated," President Donald Trump said during a nationally broadcast connection from the White House Saturday aft American stealth bombers blasted 3 facilities. "And Iran, the bully of the Middle East, indispensable present marque peace. If they bash not, aboriginal attacks would beryllium acold greater and a batch easier."
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Iranians outcry anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans during a rally to condemn attacks connected Iran successful Tehran connected June 20, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The bombings came amid an progressively deadly struggle involving Iran and Israel, which is astatine warfare with the Iran-backed panic radical Hamas.
Last year, the Justice Department said it thwarted a crippled to termination Trump aft Election Day. Separately, the DOJ announced the apprehension and condemnation of 2 different Iranian assets accused of plotting to termination an American journalist, Masih Alinejad, who was captious of the theocracy.
"I americium shocked," she posted connected X astatine the time. "I conscionable learned from the @FBI that 2 men were arrested yesterday successful a caller crippled to termination maine astatine Fairfield University, wherever I was scheduled to springiness a talk. I besides learned that the idiosyncratic assigned to assassinate @realDonaldTrump was besides assigned to termination maine connected U.S. soil. The alleged killers besides went successful beforehand of my location successful Brooklyn."
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Masih Alinejad, 48, a salient Iranian American quality rights activist, attends an interrogation with the Associated Press successful Berlin, Germany, Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Another suspected Iranian cause is Asif Merchant. The Pakistani antheral is accused of posing arsenic an planetary covering salesman and trying to prosecute deed men successful Brooklyn nightclubs successful an alleged assassination crippled targeting cardinal U.S. figures, perchance adjacent Trump.
"For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘Death to America, decease to Israel.’ They person been sidesplitting our people, blowing disconnected their arms, blowing disconnected their legs with roadside bombs," Trump said Saturday. "That was their specialty. We mislaid implicit a 1000 people, and hundreds of thousands passim the Middle East and astir the satellite person died arsenic a nonstop effect of their hatred successful particular."
President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025, aft the U.S. subject struck 3 Iranian atomic and subject sites. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)
Other threats whitethorn not person straight travel from Iran but look to person been, astatine slightest successful part, inspired by the authorities there.
In March 2022, an Iranian-born Texas 23-year-old named Nika Nikoubin lured a antheral into a Las Vegas edifice for enactment and stabbed him successful the neck. She initially told constabulary the stabbing came arsenic revenge for the U.S. drone onslaught that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani – a designated violent person who the Defense Department blames for the deaths of hundreds of American troops and thousands of terrible injuries overseas.
Qassem Soleimani, commandant of Iran's Quds Force, attends an yearly rally commemorating the day of the 1979 Islamic revolution, successful Tehran, Feb. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Days earlier Trump ordered the drone onslaught that killed him, Soleimani had orchestrated a deadly onslaught connected a U.S. basal successful Iraq. Authorities person said Iran has been seeking retaliation for his decease for years. Also successful 2022, national prosecutors charged different Iranian cause with trying to person erstwhile White House nationalist information advisor John Bolton killed for $300,000.
Former nationalist information advisor John Bolton and IRGC subordinate Shahram Poursafi (Reuters; FBI)
Shahram Poursafi, besides known arsenic Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly tried to prosecute assassins successful Washington, D.C., and Maryland, according to the Justice Department. He had a second, unnamed people helium was consenting to wage up to $1 cardinal to person killed, authorities said.
"Iran has a past of plotting to assassinate individuals successful the U.S. it deems a threat, but the U.S. authorities has a longer past of holding accountable those who endanger the information of our citizens," Larissa Knapp, enforcement adjunct manager of the FBI’s National Security Branch, said astatine the time. "Let determination beryllium nary doubt: The FBI, the U.S. government, and our partners remain vigilant successful the combat against specified threats present successful the U.S. and overseas."
Even arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2013, an Iranian-born U.S. national named Manssor Arbabsiar was sentenced to 25 years successful situation for his relation successful a conspiracy to termination the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
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Manssor Arbabsiar was sentenced to 25 years successful situation for his relation successful a conspiracy to termination the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. (Nueces County Sheriff’s Office)
With $100,000 from Iran's Quds Force, the Iranian subject part tally by Soleimani, Arbabsiar tried to prosecute an assassin from a Mexican cause cartel who was really a DEA informant.
Iranian Big. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, caput of the country's "Aerospace Force," had called for the deaths of Trump, erstwhile U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and different U.S. officials successful the aftermath of Soleimani's death. He was 1 of respective high-ranking Iranian leaders killed successful Israeli airstrikes past week.
Federal prosecutors person besides blamed Iranian agents for cybercrimes, including attacks connected statesmanlike campaigns from some parties.
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On Monday, Iran fired missiles toward the U.S.-run Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar – the Pentagon's largest subject installation successful the Middle East.
None of them reached the base, Fox News reported.
Fox News' Liz Friden and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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