WASHINGTON (AP) — When

transformed the FBI after theinto a national security, intelligence-gathering agency. Fighting violent crime was near the bottom, above only supporting law enforcement partners and technology upgrades.

The FBI’s new list of priorities places “Crush Violent Crime” as a top pillar alongside “Defend the Homeland,” though FBI leaders stress that counterterrorism remains the bureau’s principal mandate.Patel’s direct predecessor, Christopher Wray, often said he was hard-pressed to think of a time when the FBI was facing so many elevated threats at once. At the time of his departure last January, the FBI was grappling with elevated terrorism concerns;of Americans’ cell phones;

aimed at sowing disinformation.Testifying before lawmakers last month, Patel noted the surge in terrorism threats following the

on Israel by Hamas and a Chinese espionage threat he said had yielded investigations in each of the bureau’s offices. But the accomplishments he dwelled on first concerned efforts to “take dangerous criminals off our streets,” including the arrests of three suspects on the “Ten Most Wanted” list, and large drug seizures.

Rounding out the priority list are two newcomers: “Rebuild Public Trust” and “Fierce Organizational Accountability.”Israel, whose undeclared atomic weapons program makes it the only country in the Mideast with nuclear bombs, has not acknowledged any such Iranian operation targeting it — though there have been arrests of Israelis allegedly spying for Tehran amid

Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib claimed thousands of pages of documents had been obtained which would be made public soon. Among them were documents related to the U.S., Europe and other countries which, he claimed, had been obtained through “infiltration” and “access to the sources.”He did not elaborate on the methods used. However, Khatib, a Shiite cleric, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2022 over directing “cyber espionage and ransomware attacks in support of Iran’s political goals.”

For Iran, the claim may be designed to show the public that the theocracy was able to respond tothat spirited out what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “half ton” of documents related to Iran’s program.