U.S. on guard against possible Iran plots

(CBS News)

The FBI is pulling out all the stops on Iran. A classified nationwide conference will be held Thursday to share the assessment of the intelligence community that an attack by Iranian agents, or even a surrogate group such as Hezbollah, may be more likely in the event of an Israeli air strike on suspected Iranian nuclear facilities.

The secure video teleconference, led by FBI Assistant Director Ralph Boelter, the Bureau's top counterterrorism official, will be a 90-minute meeting with each of the 56 field offices.

The second part of the agenda is to poll the Special Agents in-Charge of those offices to report on what operations they are running covering suspected Iranian agents, Hezbollah investigations and confidential sources that may yield valuable intelligence. They are also being asked to make sure their local police departments are attuned to the threat and focused on suspicious activity around government buildings, Israeli consulates in major cities and prominent Jewish organizations.

The increased concern that is driving this "leave no stone unturned" strategy has emerged from two developments: first, the assessment that Iran has increased surveillance of potential U.S. targets overseas; second, that Iran is suspected of being behind what appears to be a series of coordinated attacks against Israeli targets last week.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57383448/u.s-on-guard-against-possible-iran-plots/

I had thought there was at least a slim chance we might avoid another debacle in the Gulf, but they're beginning to make it sound inevitable..