It’s a pleasant spring morning in Baltimore, the nearest commercial port to Washington, D.C. Life is proceeding as normal — and in fact, it’s the same in other commercial ports around the USA: New York City, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Unknown to anyone in those cities, a variety of cargo ships of various registries, all crewed primarily by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, have docked in the last few days. They were waiting for a signal from the Iranian government.
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At 9:03 a.m. in Baltimore, and simultaneously in the other cities, the captain of each ship cried out “Allahu Akbar,” turned a key, pressed a button, and he, his crew, his ship, and a lot of the
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