Two weeks into a hot war with Iran, the United States is now contending with a warning it received before the first bomb dropped: that Tehran had allegedly drawn up a plan to hit California with attack drones launched from a ship in the Pacific.
The alert, sent by the FBI to police departments across California in late February 2026 and first reported by ABC News on 11 March, has elevated already-heightened counterterrorism preparations on the West Coast to their most visible state in years.
