The U.S. State Department said it is paying more than $2 million every month to give 24-hour security to previous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a previous agent Brian Hook.
It said the two of them face "genuine and solid" dangers from Iran.
The division told Congress in a report that the expense of safeguarding Pompeo and previous Iran agent Hook between August 2021 and February 2022 added up to $13.1 million.
The report, dated Feb. 14 and stamped "touchy yet unclassified," was gotten by The Associated Press on Saturday.
Pompeo and Hook drove the Trump organization's "most extreme tension" crusade against Iran and the report says U.S. insight surveys that the dangers to them have stayed steady since they left government and could increase.
The dangers have continued even as President Joe Biden's organization has been occupied with circuitous dealings with Iran over a U.S. get back to a milestone 2015 atomic arrangement.
As a previous secretary of state, Pompeo was naturally given 180 days of assurance by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the wake of leaving office.
However, that insurance has been over and over stretched out in 60-day increases by Secretary of State Antony Blinken because of "a genuine and trustworthy danger from an unfamiliar power or specialist of an unfamiliar power emerging from obligations performed by previous Secretary Pompeo while utilized by the office," the report said.
The most recent 60-day augmentations will terminate soon.
The State Department, related to the Director of National Intelligence, should decide by March 16 in the event that the insurance ought to be broadened once more, as indicated by the report.
The report was arranged on the grounds that the extraordinary insurance financial plan will run out in June and require another mixture of cash assuming expansions are considered significant.
Current U.S. authorities say the dangers have been examined in the atomic discussions in Vienna, where Iran is requesting the evacuation of all Trump-time sanctions.
Those authorizations incorporate a "unfamiliar psychological militant association" assignment of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that Pompeo and Hook were instrumental in supporting.
The Vienna talks had been relied upon to create an understanding soon to rescue the atomic arrangement that President Donald Trump pulled out the U.S. from in 2018.
However, the discussions have been tossed into uncertainty due to new requests made by Russia and few annoying U.S.- Iran issues, including the illegal intimidation assignment, as indicated by U.S. authorities.