00:00The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was hit by two drones resulting in a limited fire and some material damage,
00:07the Kingdom's Defense Ministry said in a post on Ex on Tuesday, citing an initial assessment.
00:13The drone attack came amid ongoing Iranian missile and drone strikes on Gulf states that host U.S. bases,
00:20following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday.
00:24However, Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the circumstances of the incident.
00:30There were no reported injuries, two of the people familiar with the matter said,
00:34given the building was empty in the early morning hours.
00:38Meanwhile, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment reviewed by Reuters,
00:42Iran and its proxies could target the U.S. with attacks in response to the Saturday killing
00:47of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Israeli and U.S. strikes.
00:53The February 28th threat assessment produced by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis
00:58at the Department of Homeland Security said Iran and its proxies probably posed a threat
01:03of targeted attacks on the United States, although a large-scale physical attack was unlikely.
01:09The report added that in the short term, the main concern was that Iran-aligned hacktivists
01:15would conduct low-level cyber attacks against U.S. networks,
01:18such as website defacements and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
01:24Han Yudro, FMT
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