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 tracking the concern 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 diplomatic sites crossed NYC and coordinating with our national partners. We’ll proceed to show for immoderate imaginable interaction to NYC."

Shortly thereafter, the Metropolitan Police Department released a akin connection connected the 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 the events successful Iran," the connection said. "We are actively coordinating with our local, state, and national instrumentality enforcement partners to stock accusation and show quality successful bid to assistance safeguard residents, businesses, and visitors successful the District of Columbia."

MPD said determination are nary known threats to the District, but that it volition summation its beingness astatine spiritual institutions crossed the city. 

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

"[NYPD] volition enactment retired peculiar attraction patrol cars astatine locations that could way to the struggle successful places that person an Israeli connection, and there's a mates of Shia mosques - Iran, is Shia - and determination are a mates of Shia mosques," Mauro told Fox News Digital. "You ne'er cognize what's going to develop. So [they'll] liaise with those communities. They'll speech to them, they'll enactment peculiar patrol, peculiar 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 code to the federation successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Saturday, June 21, 2025. Trump said the US subject struck 3 sites successful Iran connected Saturday, marking the archetypal American engagement successful nonstop attacks against Iranian atomic assets successful its struggle with Israel.  (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"In immoderate instances, they'll adjacent enactment retired what they telephone a ‘HOW’ car, which is called a ‘house of worship car,’ which is, they'll parkland a marked car close successful beforehand of the location."

More than anything, Mauro said, the authorities are monitoring online chatter from perchance unsafe atrocious actors.

"You're going to look precise intimately online," helium said. "You're going to beryllium monitoring a batch of the online stuff. NYPD has a precise robust cyber counterterrorism program, and you're going to bash that precise heavily."

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

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