[Source.](https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/03/senate-republicans-urge-pentagon-to-yank-security-clearance-of-official-with-reported-ties-to-iran/) > More than two dozen Senate Republicans are demanding the Pentagon revoke the security clearance of one of its high-ranking officials after it was discovered she possesses close ties to the Iranian government. > “Iran continues to threaten U.S. military personnel in the Middle East and remains intent on assassinating American citizens here in the United States. Given these facts, we find it simply unconscionable that a senior Department official would continue to hold a sensitive position despite her alleged participation in an Iranian government information operation,” the senators wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday.