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Escalating Tensions: How the US-Iran Conflict May Spark Terrorist Attacks
March 15, 2026
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Experts warn that the ongoing US-Iran conflict could provoke a major terrorist attack on American soil, raising the risk to levels not seen since 9/11. Explore the complex dynamics behind this growing threat.
For decades, the US and its allies have portrayed Iran as the world's biggest sponsor of state terrorism, citing the Islamic rulers' supposed revolutionary fanaticism and determined support for militant proxies. Now, this long-standing but mainly latent threat is coalescing, as the war waged on the country by the US and Israel raises the risk of an attack on American soil to levels unseen since the murderous al-Qaida assaults of 11 September 2001, experts say.
