Globalization extends the battlefields of regional wars to our own land and airspace — and Joe Biden’s lax border policies worsened the danger.
The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons — it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security.
President Donald Trump has thwarted Iran’s nuclear ambitions and swiftly settled a cease-fire.
Yet the war showed how destructive ballistic missiles can be even when they don’t bear atomic payloads.
And while the mullahs’ missiles can’t reach the United States, another Iranian weapons program must be neutralized if we’re to be safe at home: Tehran’s terrorist agents.
Trump himself has been the target of other Iranian plots.
According to court documents, Asif Merchant, a Pakistani man arrested in Texas last year, “indicated an affinity for Iran” when he attempted to hire hitmen to help murder a “political person” believed to be Trump — a scheme thwarted because the associates he sought to recruit were in fact FBI agents.
A second plot involved Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national now on the lam in Iran.
In November, federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Shakeri with providing material support for a foreign terrorist organization and planning to kill Trump on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Shakeri and two associates also stand accused of concocting a plan to murder “a US citizen of Iranian origin who has publicly opposed the Iranian government,” according to Politico.
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After American forces bombed three Iranian nuclear-program sites on Saturday, NBC News reported Iran had earlier warned Trump it could activate “sleeper cells” within the United States to retaliate against an attack on its facilities.
