Has Russia helped Iran target CIA sites in the Gulf?
Three days into the war, on March 3, The Washington Post reported that a CIA station in the US embassy in Riyadh had been targeted, according to two people familiar with the matter. Advertisement “Iran doesn’t have great space-based capability, unlike Russia,” she said. US strikes on Iran have continued for the 12th consecutive night, killing at least two people in an attack on the Shalamcheh crossing on the border with Iraq on Thursday morning.
- ▪Three days into the war, on March 3, The Washington Post reported that a CIA station in the US embassy in Riyadh had been targeted, according to two people familiar with the matter.
- ▪Advertisement “Iran doesn’t have great space-based capability, unlike Russia,” she said.
- ▪US strikes on Iran have continued for the 12th consecutive night, killing at least two people in an attack on the Shalamcheh crossing on the border with Iraq on Thursday morning.
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News|US-Israel war on IranHas Russia helped Iran target CIA sites in the Gulf?Reports of Iran targeting sites belonging to the US's CIA first emerged in the early days of the US and Israel’s war with Iran.ListenListen (5 mins)SaveClick here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoRussia's President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025 [Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via Reuters]By Edna MohamedPublished On 23 Jul 202623 Jul 2026When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov on Thursday in Manila, on the margins of a summit of…
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