STUNNING AND ALARMING – AT 9:45 P.M. ET:  I would take this report very seriously.  Remember that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and radical Islamists attacked us on 9-11, in part because we didn't take warnings seriously enough.  From AP: 

Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation’s capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.

They said communications intercepted by the National Security Agency in January showed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard discussed mounting “USS Cole-style attacks” against the base, referring to the October 2000 suicide attack in which a small boat pulled up alongside the Navy destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden and exploded, killing 17 sailors.

The intelligence also revealed threats to kill Gen. Joseph M. Martin and plans to infiltrate and surveil the base, according to the officials, who were not authorized to publicly discuss national security matters and spoke on condition of anonymity. The base, one of the oldest in the country, is Martin’s official residence.

The threats are one reason the Army has been pushing for more security around Fort McNair, which sits alongside Washington’s bustling newly developed Waterfront District.

City leaders have been fighting the Army’s plan to add a buffer zone of about 250 feet to 500 feet (75 meters to 150 meters) from the shore of the Washington Channel, which would limit access to as much as half the width of the busy waterway running parallel to the Potomac River.

The Pentagon, National Security Council and NSA either did not reply or declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press.

As District of Columbia officials have fought the enhanced security along the channel, the Army has offered only vague information about threats to the base.

At a virtual meeting in January to discuss the proposed restrictions, Army Maj. Gen. Omar Jones, commander of the Military District of Washington, cited “credible and specific” threats against military leaders who live on the base. The only specific security threat he offered was about a swimmer who ended up on the base and was arrested.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district’s sole representative in Congress, was skeptical. “When it comes to swimmers, I’m sure that must be rare. Did he know where he was? Maybe he was just swimming and found his way to your shore?” she said.

Jones conceded that the swimmer was “not a great example there, but our most recent example” of a security breach.

He said the Army has increased patrols along the shoreline, erected more restricted area signs and placed cameras to monitor the Washington Channel.

Puzzled city officials and frustrated residents said the Army’s request for the buffer zone was a government overreach of public waterways.

COMMENT:  Israeli intelligence officials, quoted anonymously in the Israeli press, regard these reports as valid, and they are well familiar with Iranian techniques.  Of course, officials in our own capital city of Washington are expressing skepticism, as they are mostly aligned with the WOKE community and its disdain for the defense of the United States.

There is a body of thought in some enemy nations that if you strike America, America will not fight back but will look for the first chance to negotiate a peace.  In the past that has been a significant misconception, as some enemies learned the hard way.  But I don't know about today.  Our vastly inferior educational system, combined with an often clueless, lurching-to-the-left media, have left us unready for the bitter and dangerous battles that the Chinese and Iranians almost certainly have in mind.  Add to that the vast economic losses and federal debts of the last two years, and we are probably more vulnerable than we've been since the days before World War II.

March 21, 2021