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US bracing for imminent Iranian response to attack attributed to Israel

Iranians attend the annual Quds Day commemorations and the funeral of seven Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike on the country's consular annex in Damascus, which Tehran blamed on Israel, on April 5, 2024, in Tehran.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and its allies are sounding an unusually urgent alarm over Iran's possible plans to retaliate in the coming days over Israel's purported killing of senior Iranian officials at a diplomatic mission in Syria.

An Iranian action, it is feared, would likely provoke an Israeli response, which could ratchet up violence in the region.

U.S. officials said this week that Iran appears

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