CIA Director David Petraeus (r) listens
as Director of National Intelligence,
James Clapper, left, testifies on Capitol Hill,
Washington, Jan. 31, 2012.
America’s top
intelligence official says Iran is increasingly
willing to conduct attacks in the United States or
against U.S. interests overseas, but does not
appear to have decided to build a nuclear weapon.
In written
testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee,
director of National Intelligence, James Clapper,
said last year’s foiled plot to assassinate the
Saudi ambassador to Washington shows that some
Iranian officials “are now more willing to conduct
an attack in the United States in response to real
or perceived actions that threaten the regime.” He
said such officials could include the country’s
supreme leader.