U.S. Alerts Goldman Sachs Paris After Iranian Group Threatens Terror Bombing

U.S. Alerts Goldman Sachs Paris After Iranian Group Threatens Terror Bombing

U.S. banks in Paris are at the center of Iranian threats…

(Tyler Durden Reports) – Five days after French authorities foiled a terror plot targeting Bank of America’s Paris headquarters, the threat environment facing U.S. financial institutions in the French capital appears to be worsening.

New reporting from Le Parisien says Goldman Sachs’ Paris headquarters was placed under police surveillance on Wednesday night following threats allegedly linked to Iranian terror networks. 

Le Parisien outlines the rationale behind the heightened security posture:

It’s 1:30 a.m. when the phone rings, shattering the night’s calm.

A security guard on duty at the American bank receives a call from his head of security, based in London.

According to our information, she informs him that she has received an email from the American authorities, advising him to “extend his vigilance” at the bank.

The reason? “An Iranian group is threatening to attack the buildings with explosive devices,” explains a source close to the matter.

By Thursday morning, however, the Paris prosecutor’s office said that “no suspicious elements were found at the scene” following surveillance operations in and around Goldman’s building at 85 Avenue Marceau in the 16th arrondissement.

Reuters reports that Goldman and Citigroup staffers in Paris are remote working amid threats.

The latest threat comes after last week’s arrest of three suspects linked to the foiled terror plot outside Bank of America’s Paris headquarters. French investigators have reportedly tied the BofA incident to broader tensions stemming from the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East.

Separately, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened US companies with operations across the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

“From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” the IRGC said.

It is no longer just U.S. banks being treated as part of the battlefield. U.S. tech firms are in the crosshairs of the IRGC. President Trump’s Wednesday night comments signaling another two to three weeks of military operations against Iran raise the odds of global spil.

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