{"id":2018384,"date":"2023-08-31T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-press-for-classified-briefing-on-irans-assassination-plots\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:54:33","slug":"lawmakers-press-for-classified-briefing-on-irans-assassination-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-press-for-classified-briefing-on-irans-assassination-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers demand classified briefing on Iran&#8217;s assassination schemes."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-press-for-classified-briefing-on-irans-assassination-plots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Republicans say Biden \u200bnot doing enough\u200d to counter \u2018credible threats\u2019 \u200don U.S. leaders<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Hezbollah militants \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Congressional Republicans are pressing the Biden administration to hold a classified briefing on Iran\u2019s efforts \u200cto assassinate American officials, citing ongoing and &#8220;credible \u200cthreats&#8221; against\u2063 former secretary of state \u200cMike Pompeo and other U.S. leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers\u2014led by\u200d Reps. Mark Green (R., Tenn.),\u200c the House Homeland\u2062 Security chair, and\u2063 August Pfluger (R., Texas)\u2014are concerned the Biden administration is not\u200d doing enough to counter Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-allows-iranian-threats-to-assassinate-former-president-trump\/\" title=\"Twitter Allows Iranian Threats To Assassinate Former President Trump\">assassination plots<\/a> amid efforts to revive the 2015\u200c nuclear deal. Already, the administration has completed a\u2063 hostage deal with Iran that freed\u200d up billions of dollars in resources for the hardline regime and\u200b its Islamic\u2062 Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated \u200cterror group known for \u2063its efforts to kill Americans abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is \u200bcurious that while \u2063these egregious activities continue, the\u2064 Biden \u2064administration is not taking actions to impose consequences on the Iranian regime and instead has\u2064 renewed its push for a \u200bnuclear deal with Iran,&#8221; the lawmakers write in \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-31-Letter-to-Mayorkas-Wray-and-Abizaid-re-Iran-Targeting-Ops-Signed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> sent \u2062to the\u200b Department of\u200c Homeland\u2062 Security, FBI, and National Counterterrorism Center.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers are\u200b asking for detailed information \u2063&#8221;about the number \u200bof active plots by Iran or its proxies against U.S. persons living in the United \u2063States, \u200bas\u2063 well as\u200d information\u200c about\u2062 your respective agencies\u2019 coordination efforts for\u200b threat intelligence to counter \u2064Iran\u2019s activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is particular concern that the Iran-funded terror group Hezbollah has the capacity to carry out operations inside America. FBI director Christopher Wray outlined these threats during a public hearing last year when he disclosed that \u2064the &#8220;arrests of \u200bindividuals in \u2063the United States allegedly \u2064linked to Hezbollah\u2019s main overseas terrorist arm, \u200band their intelligence collection \u200band \u200dprocurement efforts, demonstrate Hezbollah\u2019s \u200cinterest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-press-for-classified-briefing-on-irans-assassination-plots\/\" title=\"Lawmakers demand classified briefing on Iran's assassination schemes.\">long-term contingency planning activities<\/a> here in the homeland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amid the Biden\u200b administration\u2019s diplomacy with Iran, that country\u2019s leaders\u2064 have made \u2064clear that they are trying to assassinate \u2063former Trump administration officials for their role in\u2064 a 2020 drone\u2062 strike\u2064 that \u200dkilled Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani. These include active threats against Pompeo, his envoy Brian Hook, and former White House National\u200d Security adviser\u200b John Bolton, who was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/member-irans-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-irgc-charged-plot-murder-former-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">target<\/a> \u2062 of \u2064a foiled 2022 IRGC assassination plot.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-vows-revenge-soleimani-killing-if-trump-not-put-trial-2022-01-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bragged<\/a> about its assassination plots \u2062against Pompeo, Trump, and \u2062others, including as \u2063recently as June\u2062 2022, when a Tehran-linked social media account warned\u2064 the former secretary \u200dof\u200b state to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/iran-renews-threats-to-assassinate-mike-pompeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/iran-renews-threats-to-assassinate-mike-pompeo\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">live in fear<\/a>.&#8221; That message was accompanied \u2064by a picture of\u200b Pompeo with a\u200b target across his head.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063State Department, \u2062in comments to\u200d the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> \u200dat the time, said it takes these threats seriously \u2064and\u200c is working to \u200dcounter \u2062them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make no \u2062mistake: the United States \u2063will protect\u2062 and defend its\u2064 citizens,&#8221; \u2064a spokesman said. &#8220;This includes those serving\u2064 the\u200c United States \u200dnow and those who formerly served.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iranian regime allies also have bragged about \u2064these death threats. Princeton professor and former Iranian \u200bambassador Hussein Mousavian came under intense \u200dcriticism last \u200cyear when he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/princeton-official-brags-about-death-threats-against-trump-admin-envoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> to \u200bbrag about the death threats against Hook, the former \u200dIran envoy.<\/p>\n<p>House Homeland Security Committee\u200d chair Green said the Biden administration must make completely clear to Iran\u2063 that these ongoing threats are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one who stands up to the Iranian regime should face retaliation on U.S. soil. As Iran\u2062 and its \u200bproxies plan assassinations of U.S. national security \u2062officials and place bounties on the heads of journalists, the Biden administration must send the message \u200cthat these threats to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles 'Anonymous' Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">homeland security<\/a> will not be tolerated,&#8221; Green told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;It\u2019s high time to show strength on the \u200dworld stage, not weakness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Representative Michael McCaul\u2014argue that the administration&#8217;s response to these threats has been insufficient and are demanding immediate action to counter the activities of Hezbollah militants and other Iranian-backed groups. They emphasize the urgency of the situation and the need for a comprehensive strategy to protect American officials from potential harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2018385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}