Norway lowers terror threat level as Iran threat wanes

(AFP) Norway’s intelligence agency lowered its terror threat level from “high” to “moderate” on Thursday, saying the threat posed by Iran against Jewish and Israeli targets had waned.

The decision brings the threat level down to three on a scale of five, five weeks after it had been raised on October 8 on fears of fallout from escalating tensions in the Middle East.

The hike came days after separate attacks on Israel’s embassies in neighbouring Denmark and Sweden, which Sweden’s intelligence agency has suggested Iran may have orchestrated.

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