FBI remains on high alert, DHS memo warns of lone wolf attacks amid war with Iran

The FBI remains connected precocious alert amid the struggle with Iran, arsenic U.S. forces caput to the Middle East arsenic the Trump medication escalates its run against the Islamic Republic, Fox News has learned. 

A elder FBI authoritative told Fox News that the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) is inactive connected precocious alert, and each resources were acceptable if requested oregon needed from instrumentality enforcement partners.

A Department of Homeland Security memo sent retired implicit the play warns of imaginable cyber and lone wolf attacks amid the bombing of Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces. The memo doesn't notation immoderate circumstantial idiosyncratic attacks but warns of lower-level cyberattack and different violence. 

On Saturday, FBI Director Kash Patel said that helium instructed counterterrorism and quality teams to beryllium connected precocious alert and to mobilize each assisting information assets needed.

FBI Director Kash Patel pictured astatine a podium. A elder FBI authoritative said the bureau remains connected precocious alert amid the U.S. struggle with Iran.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

"Our JTTFs passim the state are moving 24/7, arsenic always, to code and disrupt immoderate imaginable threats to the homeland," helium wrote connected X. 

"While the subject handles unit extortion overseas, the @FBI remains astatine the forefront of deterring attacks present astatine location - and volition proceed to person our squad enactment astir the timepiece to support Americans," helium added. 

Early Sunday morning, Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. national who was calved successful Senegal, allegedly killed 3 radical successful a shooting that near different 14 radical injured astatine a barroom successful Austin, Texas. At his home, investigators recovered an Iranian emblem and photos of authorities leaders.

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A wide presumption of Tehran with fume disposable successful the region aft explosions were reported successful the city, connected March 2, 2026, successful Tehran, Iran. (Contributor/Getty Images)

Police changeable and killed the gunman, who utilized a pistol and a firearm successful the shooting.

On Monday, Gen. Dan Caine, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said much U.S. troops were headed toward the Middle East, but declined to specify however many.  

"I don't privation to speech specifics, due to the fact that that would extremity the force off," Caine told reporters during a Pentagon briefing. "We person much tactical aviation flowing into theatre conscionable based connected the clip it took to get it retired there."

The U.S. ngo successful Iran, Caine said, is to "prevent Iran from (the) quality to task powerfulness extracurricular its borders."

Austin Police Department released a photograph of Ndiaga Diagne arsenic the fishy tied to Sunday's wide shooting. (Austin Police Department)

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Meanwhile, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the ngo is to forestall Tehran from producing a atomic weapon, arsenic good arsenic destroying immoderate of its subject capabilities.

U.S. tomahawk missiles fired from U.S. Navy vessels person struck Iranian naval forces on the confederate flank, and American bomber planes person deed underground Iranian facilities, Caine said. 

Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips contributed to this report. 

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