{"id":26039,"date":"2026-03-01T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26039"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:03:12","slug":"fbi-raises-terrorism-alert-over-fears-of-retaliation-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26039","title":{"rendered":"FBI raises terrorism alert over fears of retaliation by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2262176714-e1772315132227.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel said he put the bureau\u2019s counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams on high alert Saturday after the US and Israel launched a sweeping military assault on Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Iran retaliated with strikes on US military bases and allies in the region after President Donald Trump urging Iranians to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the FBI and the New York Police Department\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force were monitoring pro-Iran groups who were active on social media Saturday praising Iran\u2019s response and urging supporters to mobilize \u2014 rhetoric officials described as hostile but not yet operational, according to a task force situational awareness report. No specific threats against US targets had been identified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, I instructed our counterterrorism and intelligence teams to be on high alert and mobilize all assisting security assets needed,\u201d Patel said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were watching Hezbollah closely. The Iranian-backed terror group had previously indicated it would stay out of the fight if American strikes on Iran were limited, but its leadership has long maintained that any move against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would change that. The task force said it was monitoring the group for any sign of a shift.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security remains without full congressional funding, and Secretary Kristi Noem said Saturday she was coordinating with federal intelligence and law enforcement partners to monitor and thwart any potential threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iran has spent years trying to silence its critics on American soil, and New York has been a repeated target. In 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a man carrying a loaded military-style rifle outside the Brooklyn home of Masih Alinejad, a Voice of America host and one of Iran\u2019s most prominent dissidents, and investigated the case as a possible assassination plot. A year earlier, federal authorities said Iranian intelligence had organized a kidnapping plot against her. Tehran denied it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"not-prose empty:contents [:has(*[data-empty=true])]:hidden clear-both\">\n<div class=\"typography-level-4 mt-4 font-graphik-compact [&amp;_*_a]:hover:underline\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><span class=\"description-parser contents\"><strong>Join us at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit <\/strong>May 19\u201320, 2026, in Atlanta. The next era of workplace innovation is here\u2014and the old playbook is being rewritten. At this exclusive, high-energy event, the world\u2019s most innovative leaders will convene to explore how AI, humanity, and strategy converge to redefine, again, the future of work. Register now.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>#FBI #raises #terrorism #alert #fears #retaliation #Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel said h&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[6251,2542,540,6466,1175,7681,14772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}