{"id":2215125,"date":"2024-04-07T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-intel-chairman-warns-americans-in-the-area-remain-in-danger-from-iranian-attacks\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T22:45:54","slug":"house-intel-chairman-warns-americans-in-the-area-remain-in-danger-from-iranian-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-intel-chairman-warns-americans-in-the-area-remain-in-danger-from-iranian-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"House Intelligence Committee Chair Cautions that Americans Nearby Are Still at Risk from Iranian Assaults"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fhouse-intel-chairman-warns-americans-in-the-area-remain-in-danger-from-iranian-attacks%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=2215125&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--><p>House Intelligence \u2062Committee Chairman\u2064 Mike Turner expressed concerns in an interview about the\u200c threat\u200d to Americans in \u2063the Middle East \u2063from Iran retaliating for the killing of a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-journalist-biden-making-world-more-dangerous-destroying-military-with-wokesters\/\" title=\"Australian Journalist: Biden Making World \u2018More Dangerous,\u2019 Destroying Military With \u2018Wokesters\u2019\">top general<\/a>. Turner emphasized \u2063the ongoing danger during the \u200binterview\u200c on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; \u200dand highlighted Iranian proxies&#8217; attacks \u200bon U.S. \u200btroops and \u200bthe U.S.&#8217;s\u2063 efforts to\u2063 deter further conflict in the region. During\u200d an interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; House Intelligence Committee\u200b Chairman\u200b Mike Turner\u200c voiced apprehensions \u200cabout the risk to Americans in \u200bthe Middle East posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/intel-officials-warn-hezbollah-could-soon-strike-within-us-using-capability-other-terror-groups-dont-have\/\" title=\"Intel officials caution that Hezbollah possesses a unique capability that could enable them to launch an attack within the United States\">potential retaliatory actions<\/a> from Iran following the \u200btargeted killing of a senior general. Turner underscored \u200cthe\u2063 persistent threat, citing\u200c Iranian proxies&#8217; attacks on U.S. troops and U.S.\u200d endeavors \u200cto \u200dprevent escalating tensions in the\u200b area.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said during an interview over the weekend that Americans in the Middle East were in danger of becoming targets for the Islamic Republic of Iran as the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-biden-gives-up-u-s-leverage-over-iran-offers-to-restart-nuclear-deal-talks\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Biden Gives Up U.S. Leverage Over Iran, Offers To Restart Nuclear Deal Talks\">leading state sponsor<\/a> of terrorism looks to avenge the loss of one of its top generals.<\/p>\n<p>Turner made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d with Jake Tapper when asked about Iran\u2019s forthcoming retaliation after Israel killed Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019s Quds Force, last week.<\/p>\n<p>A hardline group in Iran with connections to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that Zahedi played a \u201cstrategic role in forming and strengthening the resistance front as well as in planning and executing\u201d Hamas\u2019 unprecedented terrorist attack on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Americans in the area remain in danger,\u201d Turner said when asked about what Iran was planning. \u201cRemember, Iranian proxies have continued to attack U.S. troops in the area, again, with the Biden administration being slow to respond and ultimately responding to those attacks. And, of course, the United States has moved additional capabilities and assets in the area to deter Iran from entering into this conflict directly with Israel, although their proxy is Hamas, which the conflict is directly with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Hezbollah continues to be a threat to Israel in Lebanon,\u201d he added, noting that Zahedi was a \u201clegitimate target\u201d for Israel to eliminate because he was a key Iranian player behind much of the country\u2019s terrorism in the Syria and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) warned in a recent interview that Americans in the Middle East face increased risk of becoming targets for Iran, the world&#8217;s top state sponsor of terrorism seeking retribution for the loss of a key general. Turner emphasized the ongoing danger during his statements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2215126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Mike-Turner-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Mike-Turner-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215125","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}