Oscars on High Alert as FBI Warns Police Departments in California That Iran Could Retaliate for U.S. Attacks by Launching Drones at the West Coast

The Oscars is connected precocious alert amid an FBI informing of a imaginable Iran drone onslaught connected California successful retaliation for the war.

According to ABC News, the FBI warned constabulary departments successful California that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones astatine the West Coast.

"We precocious acquired accusation that arsenic of aboriginal February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to behaviour a astonishment onslaught utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vas disconnected the seashore of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets successful California, successful the lawsuit that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran," the alert read. "We person nary further accusation connected the timing, method, target, oregon perpetrators of this alleged attack."

According to ABC News, this accusation came earlier the U.S. and Israel began their strikes against Iran, and it is “believed” the sustained bombardment “has severely degraded Iran's capabilities to transportation retired specified an attack.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom said helium was not alert of immoderate imminent threats. “I americium successful changeless coordination with information and quality officials, including astatine @Cal_OES, to show imaginable threats to California — including those tied to the struggle successful the Middle East,” helium tweeted. “While we are not alert of immoderate imminent threats astatine this time, we stay prepared for immoderate exigency successful our state.”

Still, information is acceptable to beryllium accrued astatine this Sunday’s Oscars. Oscars telecast shaper Raj Kapoor told The Hollywood Reporter: "We person the enactment of the FBI and the LAPD, and it’s a adjacent collaboration. This amusement has to tally similar clockwork. But we privation everybody that is coming to this show, that is witnessing the show, that is adjacent a instrumentality of the amusement erstwhile they’re lasting extracurricular the barricades, we privation everybody to consciousness harmless and protected and welcome, truthful it’s our occupation arsenic a producing squad to marque definite that that translates.”

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told THR it was continuing to run astatine an “elevated level of readiness and is maintaining accrued vigilance.”

“We are moving intimately with our national and section instrumentality enforcement partners to stock quality and show the ongoing struggle successful the Middle East and measure immoderate imaginable impacts successful our communities,” it continued. “The information of the nationalist remains our highest priority. As portion of our preparedness efforts, we stay attentive to each imaginable threats, including lone-actor attacks, sleeper cells, and precocious technological oregon cyber-related threats.”

The 98th Oscars is acceptable for March 15, 2026, from the Dolby Theater successful Los Angeles astatine the caller clip of 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 11pm GMT. The broadcast is expected to tally for 3 hours, but it volition nary uncertainty spell connected long. Sinners leads the mode with a record-breaking 16 nominations. One Battle After Another has 13 nominations. Conan O'Brien – who besides starred successful If I Had Legs I'd Kick You alongside Best Actress nominee Rose Byrne – is hosting the Oscars for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row. As IGN has reported, the ceremonial volition see 2 “moments” highlighting 2 of past year’s astir beloved films, Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters, and that they volition see adjacent much than the modular performances of the nominated archetypal songs.

Variety said a planned red-carpet walkthrough with endowment publicists and workplace representatives is scheduled for Thursday.

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