{"id":3223,"date":"2026-10-24T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:03:48","slug":"iran-steps-up-efforts-to-target-us-officials-memo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"Iran steps up efforts to target US officials, memo says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US intelligence community has found that Iran has significantly intensified efforts to target American officials in the Middle East and other countries, with some potentially lethal plots reaching advanced stages, Axios reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report on Friday cited an October 23 memo from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, warning that the information was relevant to more personnel than were currently authorised to access it.<\/p>\n<p>The one-page, unclassified memo did not identify the intended targets, countries outside the Middle East or the nature of the alleged plots.<\/p>\n<p>Axios reported that the underlying intelligence had been shared with senior State Department officials, with Clayton offering to declassify as much information as possible to allow wider distribution.<\/p>\n<p>A US official told the outlet that the intelligence was among the reasons for reducing embassy staffing in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar and Jordan, following an earlier report by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, family members and nonessential personnel were also ordered to leave the US embassy in Riyadh and consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran.<\/p>\n<p>The developments come amid renewed tensions between Washington and Tehran, with US President Donald Trump telling a campaign rally in Florida on Friday that the United States could launch another attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US intelligence community has found that Iran has significantly intensified efforts to target American officials in the Middle East and other countries, with some potentially lethal plots reaching advanced stages, Axios reported. The report on Friday cited an October 23 memo from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, warning that the information was relevant to more personnel than were currently authorised to access it. The one-page, unclassified memo did not identify the intended targets, countries outside the Middle East or the nature of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}