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Thursday, January 25, 2024
US reportedly warned Iran ahead of deadly ISIS bombings
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
The US warned Iran ahead of the deadly Islamic State suicide bombings on January 3 that killed 84 people, US officials tell The Wall Street Journal.
“Prior to ISIS’s terrorist attack on January 3, 2024, in Kerman, Iran, the US government provided Iran with a private warning that there was a terrorist threat within Iranian borders,” a US official says. “The US government followed a longstanding ‘duty to warn’ policy that has been implemented across administrations to warn governments against potential lethal threats. We provide these warnings in part because we do not want to see innocent lives lost in terror attacks.”
According to the WSJ report, the intelligence that ISIS-Khorasan was planning an attack was specific and timely enough that it could have helped Iran prevent the attacks, which it initially pinned on Israel.
The Times of Israel Community.