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| Iran Steps Up Covert Action in Latin America |
| 2015-05-04 |
| [WashingtonFreeBeacon] The Iranian government is significantly boosting its presence and resources in Latin America, posing a national security threat to the region, according to a group of U.S. and Latin American officials who met earlier this week in Florida to discuss Iran's covert actions. While Iran has long had a foothold in the Western hemisphere, these officials warned that the Islamic Theocratic Republichas invested significant resources into its Latin American operations in a bid to increase its sway in the region. Iran's growing influence in the region--and its effort to exert influence over governments there--has fostered pressing security concerns as the Iranians inch closer to the United States' southern border, according to these U.S. officials and Latin American leaders, who met for several days this week at a summit organized by the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF). is troubling in some of the briefings we get, particularly on the classified side, to see Iranian influence in Latin America," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), a member of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview. "A lot of these [Latin American officials] share the concern." DeSantis was one of several members of Congress and 20 Latin American politicians from 14 different countries who met during the IAF summit, which began on Sunday and ran until Tuesday morning. Iran is becoming increasingly open about its presence in Latin America and providing its officials with passports from Venezuela and other countries, giving them free rein to travel throughout South America. Iran has forged close ties with countries such as Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Bolivia, among others. Luis Heber, a member of the Uruguayan senate, said that Iranian agents--who some suspect are members of the country's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)--have been spotted in his country holding Venezuelan passports. This activity has intensified of late, several officials said. Iran currently hosts at least 80 so-called cultural centers in the region and has doubled the number of embassies in the region since 2005. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Again, IRAN = CHINA = PUTINIST RUSSIA, Other? = desire overseas Milbases = Mahanist "warm-water ports", etc. for the projection of power-n-trade, + as part of being a OWG Globalist "US-style" Co-Superpower. IN PARITY [albeit safe to say "rough"] WID THE US, NOT INFERIORITY TO THE US. Iran, China, + Russia, etc.? see US or US-Allied Milbases everywhere off their coasts + "near-abroad", while simultan seeing no Iranian, Chinese, or Russian Milbases off the US Coasts or near-abroad. * Lest we fergit, PUERTO RICO = IIRC has Jeb Bush's + VPOTUS Biden's public support to become a de facto US State in near-term or future. IMO UNDOUBTEDLY DUE, IN PART, TO CHINA'S CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW NICARAGUAN CANAL, + RUSSIA'S DESIRE TO MILITARILY PROTECT SAME VEE RUSS MILBASES IN SOON-TO-BE-POST-FIDELISTA/CASTROITE CUBA. IOW, US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = SOON-TO-BE-EX-SOLE-SUPERPOWER, FUTURE CO-SUPERPOWER AMERIKA [One of Many] ALLOWING CHINA, RUSSIA, + NOW IRAN, ETAL? TO MILPOL ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN THE AMERICAS DESPITE THE MONROE DOCTRINE + OTHER. Iff anything, GOOD OWG PCORRECTNESS-DENIABILITY = Iranian, Chinese, + Russian, etal? Milbases in the Americas, wid Weapons, Heavy Bombers + Nukes pointed at CONUS = Globalist Amerika, is NOT a violation of the Monroe Doctrine or other. THUS THE REAL DANGER TO AMERIKA IS INTERNAL, I.E. FROM AMERICANS + HISTORICAL NATIONALISM, NOT FROM AMERIKANS + US-LED ANTI-US ANTI-NATIONALIST GLOBALISM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-05-04 19:55 |
| #2 "James Monroe to the white courtesy phone..." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-04 11:11 |
| #1 There needs to be a hemispheric clean up. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-04 09:54 |