Did you submit a SF-86 to the OPM and were in the process of going through the formal background investigation at that time?
This was before the OPM breach.
yes, but what I mean is there's the non zero possibility that some part of the background investigation did send a person to try to get your opinion on Iran, not a data leak, but an actual TLA-adjacent person.
What is TLA?
Three letter acronym. Aka, CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
I’ve always heard it as “Three letter Agency”, when used in this context specifically.