Iranian media praises the murder of Israeli embassy staff in D.C. as the Trump administration weighs a nuclear deal with Iran, highlighting tensions and U.S. concerns.

FBI special agents on Sunday arrested dual U.S.-German citizen Joseph Neumayer at JFK International Airport in New York in connection with an attempt to destroy the Branch Office of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a Sunday press release.

Officials say a 28-year-old with US citizenship had Molotov cocktails in his backpack and called for "death to America".

Barely a week into her tenure as Washington, DC’s top federal prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro faced an urgent test – overseeing the investigation into the murders of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the city’s Jewish museum.

Identifying who will go from anger to violence is like "trying to find which piece of hay is going to become a needle," one expert said.

The President led U.S. lawmakers in condemning the killings and said they were "based obviously on antisemitism."

Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were departing an event Wednesday evening when they were gunned down and killed.