US Issues World Wide Terror Alert Linked to Iran
That didn't take long. On its Twitter account, the State Department posted this alert tonight -- its first tweet in four days.
@TravelGov Travel - State Dept
#Worldwide #Travel alert - potential for anti-U.S. actions due to disruption of terrorist act in U.S. linked to Iran: goo.gl/RKo7B
The gist:
The U.S. government assesses that this Iranian-backed plan to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador may indicate a more aggressive focus by the Iranian Government on terrorist activity against diplomats from certain countries, to include possible attacks in the United States.
Background on the plot is in our earlier post here.
What's this really about?
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