NEW: Threat from #Iran, it's proxies "increasingly sophisticated & multi-dimensional...increasingly brazen" @TheJusticeDept's Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco tells @UANI's #Iransummit2022
#Iran efforts to develop & exploit networks in the #UnitedStates "is most concerning" per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco
"This is a threat that has evolved & increased"
"This is a threat that has evolved & increased"
#Iran brazenness evidenced by "this year alone, the disruption of 2 plots against Americans on US soil..." per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco, referring to plots vs @AlinejadMasih & @AmbJohnBolton
"It represents a sea change, brazenly going after...a former national security adviser" per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco on #Iran
"A threat to Americans, full stop, is unacceptable"
"A threat to Americans, full stop, is unacceptable"
"Any effort to go after Americans...the #Iran|ians will face very stiff consequences" per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco
NEW: #Iran in #cyber "an increasingly concerning threat" per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco
Especially bcs of "their increasing willingness to frankly seek to punch above their weight"
Especially bcs of "their increasing willingness to frankly seek to punch above their weight"
#Iran targeting US critical infrastructure shows #Tehran using #cyber as part of campaign of political oneupsmanship, per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco
"We got to be quite clear-eyed abt #Hezbollah...is a tool in their arsenal" even in the US, per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco
No other country has been as brazen as #Iran in going after ppl on US soil, per @TheJusticeDept's Monaco
But she calls out #China's gvt/#PRC for intimidating/harassing dissidents in the US
But she calls out #China's gvt/#PRC for intimidating/harassing dissidents in the US
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