Iran no longer appears to have any reservations about launching attacks on US soil, National Intelligence Director James Clapper said in Senate testimony today. The new assessment is based in part on Iran's alleged attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US. The incident "shows that some Iranian officials—probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States," Clapper said, according to the Washington Post.
"We are also concerned about Iranian plotting against US or allied interests overseas," he added. But the news wasn't all bad; Clapper said that the US was in a "critical transitional phase for the terrorist threat." Al-Qaeda is breaking apart, and will now likely focus on "smaller, simpler plots," instead of mass-casualty ones. Yemen affiliate al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, meanwhile, has had its international ambitions stymied by Anwar al-Awlaki's death. (More al-Qaeda stories.)
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