The White House called for an 'immediate retraction' of a recent ABC News report alleging an Iranian drone threat to the West Coast, criticizing the outlet for 'providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people.'
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the report for basing itself solely on one unverified intelligence tip—a detail omitted by the network in its reporting—and assured Americans that no such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did.'
This came as the White House condemned the media broadly for coverage of Operation Epic Fury—from pushing the narrative there has been 'mixed messaging' about the operation's objectives to airing uninterrupted segments of Iranian state TV.