As we come up on the fourth year of Biden/Harris open borders, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is warning its field offices that Iran or proxies thereof may attempt to bring “operatives, money, or materials” across the porous southern or northern borders to facilitate a terrorist attack against the United States, Just the News, citing an agency memo, said this week.
The memo originated from the agency’s Office of Field Operations and warned personnel to take a “heightened posture due to ongoing security threats,” while suggesting a recent attack on Israel by Iran-backed Hezbollah on an Israeli soccer field may be a precursor to similar attacks against the West. The alert also mentioned Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran.
“The seniority of the targets, the sensitive locations of the strikes, and their near simultaneity represents an escalation in tension in the region and raises concerns of additional reprisals from Iran and its regional proxies," the memo states. “With significant government of Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah influence and presence in the Western Hemisphere, OFO could see cross-border travel of operatives, money, and or materials to support operations in the United States."
The memo recommended that staff assigned to ports of entry should maintain an increased enforcement posture through high visibility operations and “hardening measures.”
The memo also urged agency personnel to work with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to “deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to a terrorism attack against the United States.”
The memo also addressed earlier intelligence that a Venezuelan-based gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), has deployed extensive assets across the U.S. border to northeastern states, and its members may try to engage with law enforcement.
The memo specifically highlighted recent intelligence that showed TdA operating in Denver has been “given a green light to fire on or attack law enforcement.”
The memo came as several terrorist threat developments occurred worldwide. Wednesday, Austrian authorities canceled several concerts featuring Taylor Swift due to concerns about terrorism and what was described as a legitimate threat.
Meanwhile, on August 6, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed the FBI had arrested a Pakistani national last month after evidence surfaced that he was working with Iran to carry out assassinations targeting several high-profile former government officials. While sources said one of those targets was former President Trump, he was not specifically mentioned in the threats. However, Iran has previously threatened to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
In addition, Fort Belvoir in Virginia, located close to Washington, D.C. has closed its gates to unauthorized and public travel, citing unspecified security threats.
Earlier this year, the Marine headquarters at Quantico, Va., located not far from Fort Belvoir, was the scene of two Jordanian men being arrested for attempting to gain unauthorized access to that location.
Just the News spoke to Walid Phares, a national security expert who works with U.S. counterterrorism assets, and who has advised several presidential candidates. Phares said he believes Iran may be stepping up its terror game to force lame-duck and dementia-riddled Joe Biden into a better deal. Phares criticized the Biden administration for not revealing the arrest of the Pakistani in New York for several weeks after his July 12 arrest.
Phares said that Iran’s leaders “want chaos, because, in chaos, they could do whatever they want in the region, including attacking Israel and the Arabs. So that’s No. 1, it’s an old thing. No. 2, and the most important for our public is, why have you not informed the public? I mean, this is like the biggest question that Congress needs to start asking, in my view.
“The Iran deal is not just a deal over nuclear weapons. It’s a deal over $150 billion and the regime, no doubt about it, is telling the people who are in charge now of that deal that if you start exposing anything, we’re doing, or our agents are doing, we’re off the deal.”
The above seems to confirm fears expressed by FBI Director Christopher Wray, who in Congressional testimony earlier this year warned that “the terrorism warning lights are blinking red again.”
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