New Delhi, June 6 -- The Pentagon has elevated its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to the highest level amid concerns that the US ally has intensified efforts to gather intelligence on American officials, according to an NBC News report citing two current US officials and one former US official.

According to the news outlet, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recently issued a revised counterintelligence assessment that elevated Israel's threat designation to "critical."

The report said the assessment was issued in recent weeks as tensions have grown between Washington and Jerusalem over the future direction of the conflict involving Iran. The news outlet reported that the DIA circulated an internal messag...