Tehran’s booming Latin alliance
Western intelligence agencies have been watching Venezuela’s dealings with Iran with increasing alarm. Iran and its allies (including Syrian President Bashar Assad) get gasoline from Venezuela, which in return buys Iranian know-how — perhaps in housing, but surely in arms and other sinister stuff.
Trade between Iran and Latin America rose to $3.6 billion in 2011. With the exception of Brazil, the largest trading partners (Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela) were largely motivated by anti-Americanism.
But the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing (and an Iranian-backed deadly attack on the Israeli embassy there two years earlier) has for years clouded those blossoming relationships. Argentinians, in particular, want to see justice for victims of South America’s largest terror attack. …
The US reaction has been near-nonexistent. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said merely that she’s “skeptical,” adding that Iran’s record “underlines the concern that its engagement on this matter be focused on achieving justice promptly.”
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That’s because this is Obama’s “Bay of Pigs” and we know how his kind feels about pork. He won’t have anything to do with it.
HotAirian on February 13, 2013 at 10:21 AM
What?
I challenge anyone to explain what she means in this statement. That includes Secretary Horseface.
fogw on February 13, 2013 at 10:31 AM
So the author is presenting his speculation regarding the trade between Iran and Latin America as fact. These liars will stop at nothing in order to get their war with Iran.
antifederalist on February 13, 2013 at 10:33 AM
That they are trading is a fact. That they are not trading in cupcakes and doilies is also a fact. That you are an idiot more annoying than the NeoCons is a fact!
MelonCollie on February 13, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Apparently you’ve forgotten this piece…
There have been numerous articles written…
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/hezbollah-in-south-america
http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/latin-america/the-mounting-hezbollah-threat-in-latin-america/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933139/posts
Okay… let’s follow your lead and let them go first.
Or… you can summon some unicorns to fix the problem for us. Right?
CPT. Charles on February 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM
The cousin marriage, genital mutilation, acid attack, pederast, world system of satan is making inroads in Latin America. Not a good thing.
tom daschle concerned on February 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM
Hmm… comments gone to the moderators.
Never fear, he’ll summon some unicorns to fix the problem.
CPT. Charles on February 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM
We spent most of the 80s and part of the 90s keeping a lid on the commies down there.
Now with smart power you just don’t do that sort of thing.
That said, there’s always bad stuff going on around there. A lot of those countries run what resemble foreign terrorist exchange programs. And then of course there is Mexico…
CorporatePiggy on February 13, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Not too hard to make inroads in the same place that spawned such lovely cultures as the Aztecs and is Drug King Central, sadly enough.
MelonCollie on February 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM
I wonder how many newly minted Americans we will end up droning somewhere South of the Border once we clear that path to citizenshiip.
Seth Halpern on February 13, 2013 at 1:04 PM