'Iran might aunched this attack knowing that it would be thwarted' FRANCE 24's correspondent in Washington Fraser Jackson said, "the US had intelligence that this kind of attack was possible, the scale of which however they are calling 'unprecedented'". Fraser added that "there is also a feeling within the government that Iran might aunched this attack knowing that it would be thwarted [. . .] they needed to do something big to show that they would respond to the attack on their embassy in Syria".