WH Slams Reports Iran Could Be Targeting West Coast With Drone Attacks

Reports that Iran may be using drones to attack California in retaliation for Operation Epic Fury have been refuted by the White House and many others in President Donald Trump’s administration.

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The FBI has warned California state police departments that unidentified vessels off the state’s coast may launch drones against unknown targets in the Golden State, according to an ABC report on Wednesday. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims that ABC neglected to mention that the warning itself referenced “unverified” reports.

“This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people. They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single, unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on *unverified* intelligence. Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story! WHY? TO BE CLEAR: No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did,” Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.