The FBI warned U.S. state and local law enforcement of an elevated threat posed by Iran's government to targets in the United States last month even as the White House sought to downplay the likelihood of an attack, a law enforcement intelligence report shows, Reuters reported. 

In the ​March 20 report, the FBI and other federal intelligence agencies cautioned that Iranian government "poses a persistent threat" to U.S. military ‌and government personnel and buildings, Jewish and Israeli institutions, and Iranian dissidents in the United States. Despite those warnings, ​the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center had not identified broad threats to the American public, the report said.

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly has minimized the possibility of Iranian attacks on American soil in response to other intelligence assessments in recent months.