Has Russia helped Iran target CIA sites in the Gulf?
Three days into the war, on March 3, The Washington Post reported that a CIA station in the US embassy in Riyadh had been targeted, according to two people familiar with the matter. Advertisement “Iran doesn’t have great space-based capability, unlike Russia,” she said. US strikes on Iran have continued for the 12th consecutive night, killing at least two people in an attack on the Shalamcheh crossing on the border with Iraq on Thursday morning.
- ▪Three days into the war, on March 3, The Washington Post reported that a CIA station in the US embassy in Riyadh had been targeted, according to two people familiar with the matter.
- ▪Advertisement “Iran doesn’t have great space-based capability, unlike Russia,” she said.
- ▪US strikes on Iran have continued for the 12th consecutive night, killing at least two people in an attack on the Shalamcheh crossing on the border with Iraq on Thursday morning.
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