“Iran urges Japan to release billions in blocked funds amid U.S. sanctions,” Reuters, August 22, 2021.  Behind the request is a threat—remember the attack on the two Japanese ships?  “Japan ship attacked near Strait of Hormuz, U.S. blames Iran,” Kyodo, June 13, 2019.

I don’t know yet if it was a suicide drone or recon drone.  Regardless, this one was deemed a threat.  “The US shot down Iranian drone in Syria – report,” Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2021.

“Iran’s Killers in Our Midst,” Roya Hakakian, The New York Review, August 22, 2021.  “When the FBI told me I was a target, I was shocked but not surprised. Even in US suburbs, the regime’s critics are not safe from its assassins.”