The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned the authorities in California that Iran has planned drone raids. These will be launched from an unidentified vessel off the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by United States media outlets.

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Local officials, however, have cast doubt on the warning, saying it is unverified. California Governor Gavin Newsom has downplayed the alert, saying he is “not aware of any imminent threats at this time,” but “we remain prepared for any emergency in our state,” he wrote on X.

However, he also said that he remains “in constant coordination with security and intelligence officials” on threats to the state, including those tied to the Middle East conflict.

The memo warned that in early February, Iran “allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California.” This attack was supposedly to be a retaliatory plan in case of a US attack against the country, accoridng to a report by RT.

The bulletin added that the federal authorities “have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.”

Other officials also downplayed the warning, claiming these reports of a possible drone strike were “unverified.”

“All this means is we got this information, and we want to get it out to law enforcement executives to make sure they’re up to speed on it… There is absolutely nothing more to it,” a third CBS source said as reported by RT. 

This alert followed the massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that kicked off on February 28, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and igniting a regional war. Tehran retaliated with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel and US military bases in the Gulf.

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