Iran strikes CIA base in Saudi Arabia in huge symbolic victory as spy agency arms Islamic militants to spark uprising
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Source: Daily Mail UK
Iran has blown up a CIA station at the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia as the agency works to arm militants for an uprising against the Islamic regime. A suspected Iranian drone struck the CIA station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, on Monday, just two days after the spy agency pinpointed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's location in the strike that killed him.
An internal State Department alert revealed that Tehran's attack 'collapsed' part of the station's roof and 'contaminated' the compound with smoke, according to the Washington Post.
The station also sustained 'structural damage' while personnel were advised to 'shelter in place.'
The US and Saudi governments confirmed that two drones hit the U.S. embassy complex, but did not disclose that the CIA station was impacted, the Post said.
There was no indication that CIA personnel were wounded.
The CIA has long been viewed by the Islamic regime as its arch-enemy, in part because of the agency's history of covert efforts aimed at undermining its leadership.
The American spy agency and the United Kingdom's MI6 set in motion the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which led to the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader.
Tehran's attack also comes as the spy agency works to arm Kurdish militants inside the country in an effort to foment an uprising following the ayatollah's death.
The Daily Mail has contacted the CIA for comment.
Top White House officials have been in active discussions with Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support to strike the regime.
Iranian Kurdish militants have thousands of soldiers along the Iraq-Iran border with major support in Northern Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, this semi-autonomous region has served as a haven for local Kurdish groups that pose a military threat to Iran's regime.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has targeted these groups with dozens of drone strikes since the start of the war on Saturday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday reportedly spoke with the president of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, one of the major Kurdish opposition groups targeted by Tehran's military.
The Sunni Muslim group has engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Iranian military and the IRGC.
