“We need to be very diligent about not only our security here at home, but obviously targets around the world where there are U.S. assets including embassies and so on,” he told Fox News.
Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on Feb. 28, Washington has closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait and placed others on high alert. An Iranian drone struck a parking lot near the U.S. embassy in Dubai last week, while drone fire hit the U.S. embassy in Riyadh.
“We’ve been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the time of the Dubai attack.
Separately, at least 10 people were killed and many more injured when U.S. marines opened fire on protesters who attempted to storm the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on March 1, shortly after the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran and assassinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
While police in Oslo have identified no suspects and no motive in the explosion of the embassy there, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre described it as a “very serious and completely unacceptable” event.
Sen. Tim Kaine, (D-Va.), who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday that he’s been “in dialogue with State Department personnel around the world” regarding escalated security at U.S. embassies and consulates.
“Other embassies or consulates have had protests that were merging toward violence or at least frightening to our diplomats,” he said during an interview with CBS.
Norwegian police didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.