Major U.s. Cities On High Alert Following Airstrikes On Iranian Nuclear Facilities

Authorities successful New York and Washington are connected precocious alert aft U.S. airstrikes connected 3 Iranian atomic sites connected Saturday night. 

"We’re search nan business unfolding successful Iran," NYPD said successful a station connected X. "Out of an abundance of caution, we're deploying further resources to religious, cultural, and negotiated sites crossed NYC and coordinating pinch our national partners. We’ll proceed to show for immoderate imaginable effect to NYC."

Shortly thereafter, nan Metropolitan Police Department released a akin connection connected nan societal media platform.

President Donald J. Trump successful The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 (The White House via X)

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"The Metropolitan Police Department is intimately monitoring nan events successful Iran," nan connection said. "We are actively coordinating pinch our local, state, and national rule enforcement partners to stock accusation and show intelligence successful bid to thief safeguard residents, businesses, and visitors successful nan District of Columbia."

MPD said location are nary known threats to nan District, but that it will summation its beingness astatine belief institutions crossed nan city. 

Paul Mauro is simply a Fox News contributor and erstwhile NYPD Inspector who monitored panic cells successful nan city. 

"[NYPD] will put retired typical attraction patrol cars astatine locations that could way to nan conflict successful places that person an Israeli connection, and there's a mates of Shia mosques - Iran, is Shia - and location are a mates of Shia mosques," Mauro told Fox News Digital. "You ne'er cognize what's going to develop. So [they'll] liaise pinch those communities. They'll talk to them, they'll put typical patrol, typical attraction patrol." 

US Vice President JD Vance, from left, US President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US caput of state, and Pete Hegseth, US caput of defense, during an reside to nan federation successful nan East Room of nan White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Saturday, June 21, 2025. Trump said nan US subject struck 3 sites successful Iran connected Saturday, marking nan first American engagement successful nonstop attacks against Iranian atomic assets successful its conflict pinch Israel.  (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"In immoderate instances, they'll moreover put retired what they telephone a ‘HOW’ car, which is called a ‘house of believe car,’ which is, they'll parkland a marked car correct successful beforehand of nan location."

More than anything, Mauro said, nan authorities are monitoring online chatter from perchance vulnerable bad actors.

"You're going to look very intimately online," he said. "You're going to beryllium monitoring a batch of nan online stuff. NYPD has a very robust cyber counterterrorism program, and you're going to do that very heavily."

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Mauro said that section authorities successful Washington will do nan same, and besides that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will beryllium keeping a adjacent oculus connected who is entering nan country. 

"You're besides going to beryllium looking intimately astatine things coming into nan country, to nan grade that you can, for illustration astatine nan border, astatine nan airports … CBP is going to beryllium connected precocious alert."