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.
Tehran’s terrorist agents are a weapon with a much longer reach than any of the mullahs’ missiles.
They’ve been a threat to Salman Rushdie’s life in the United States and Europe for more than 35 years, and in 2022 an attacker sympathetic to the Iranian government cost the author of “The Satanic Verses” one of his eyes and very nearly his life.
President Donald Trump 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 U.S. citizen of Iranian origin who has publicly opposed the Iranian government,” according to Politico.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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