Overview

• President Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer on June 20, deploying more than 125 warplanes, submarines and surface ships to bomb the Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan facilities with bunker-buster weapons and Tomahawk missiles.
• The DHS issued a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin forecasting low-level cyberattacks by pro-Iranian hacktivists and potential operations by actors linked to the Iranian government.
• The advisory cautioned that violent extremists could be prompted by an Iranian religious ruling to carry out anti-Jewish or anti-Israel attacks on U.S. soil.
• Police departments in New York City, Washington and Los Angeles have boosted patrols and security at religious, cultural and diplomatic sites.
• Iran’s leadership has threatened to retaliate through sleeper-cell activations or expanded cyber warfare as it evaluates its response to the damage done to its nuclear program.