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Iran accused of giving nearly $5.5 million to left-wing populist party in Spain

Jan 12, 2016 5:54 pm By Robert Spencer

Back in July 2005, then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: “The message of the Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time. Have no doubt…Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.”

No less an authority than the Ayatollah Khomeini had said from the beginning that the goals of that Revolution were global: “We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.”

Iranian politician Mohsen Rezaei once told a cheering Iranian crowd: “We will build a force that will demolish the enemies of Islam, continue the path of our great prophet Muhammad, and raise the flag of Islam in all corners of the world.”

How to accomplish these global ambitions? One way is through Leftist useful idiots in the West.

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“Probe: Spain’s ‘Podemos’ Party may have been given €5 million Euros by Iran regime,” by Lisa Daftari, Foreign Desk, January 12, 2016:

Spanish authorities are actively investigating rumors that Iran’s regime heavily financed the activities of the country’s Podemos political party, according to Spanish media sources.

The Union of Economic and Fiscal Delinquency, La Unidad de Delincuencia Económica y Fiscal (UDEF), an investigative arm of the country’s National Police has launched a detailed probe in determining whether the party accepted €5m Euros from Iran in exchange for influence in the country’s political and economic arenas, El Confidencial, a Spanish newspaper said….

Iglesias founded the left wing populist party in March 2014 in reaction to national protests against inequality and political corruption.

Podemos’ success is in part because of a combining of forces with left-wing nationalists and its promise to bring variety and plurality to Spain’s long-standing political system.

Iglesias, 36, who worked as an advisor to his ‘hero’ President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, currently hosts a TV talk show on Hispan TV, a channel funded by the Iranian government.

“Iran has had its tentacles in Spain for quite some time,” Joseph Humire, executive director of Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) said.

“Iran has been busy building its legitimacy through its dedicated, state-owned Spanish broadcast network Hispan TV, and Iglesias from Podemos was Iran’s mouthpiece for Spain through his show on that network,” Humire said….

According to Spanish law, it is illegal for parties to receive political donations from foreign governments.

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  1. Wellington says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    Whether this is true, the fact that it is believable is in itself telling. Not just Iran, but the Islamic world in general knows that modern Western leftism is at worst a neutral, at best an ally. This is part of the reason, not all though, why I look upon modern Western leftists as fools. How can anyone who hasn’t let their built-in crap detector they were born with from getting rusty not look upon today’s Western leftists as useful idiots of the first order?

    Another comment I have here. It is this: All those who are throwbacks to the kind of liberalism that a Harry Truman or a Clement Attlee embraced, though they are a declining species, I do not look upon as fools. Such old-fashion liberals comprehended quite well what constituted evil and knew how to act accordingly. My differences with these kind of folks on the left are mostly economic and I don’t look upon them the way I do so many modern liberals (I think they now prefer the term “progressives”) who have indeed lost their collective mind.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 9:14 pm

      Agree. Useful idiots. They remind me of COUNT JULIAN, the Spanish aristocrat who betrayed Spain to the Muslim invaders helping them to land unopposed.

      The link is believed Center for a Secure Free Society. The story confirms the ALLIANCE OF WESTERN LEFTISTS WITH THE ISLAMISTS.

      The Marxists think they can destroy European civilization by Muslim immigration. They are riding the Islamic tiger, but what will happen when they try to DISMOUNT THE TIGER?

      Western elites need to remove their IDEOLOGICAL BLINKERS…of cultural relativism. All cultures are dissimilar and unequal. Islam is irreconcilable with ANY OTHER CULTURE.

      • jimmi says

        Jan 12, 2016 at 11:07 pm

        Not useful idiots… They get money. Plain corruption.

        • eduardo odraude says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 1:04 am

          Maybe some of both?

        • Asturiano says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 1:36 am

          Definitely both.

    • Shane says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 11:23 am

      The traitorous left has been allied with Islamists with decades as they have common enemies – Christianity and Western Civilization. Looks at how Obama, Hillary, and the Philly mayor stupidly state that Islamic terrorists have nothing to do with Islam. Dhimmi traitors they are.

  2. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    “…According to Spanish law, it is illegal for parties to receive political donations from foreign governments…”

    If funding was provided, then it was almost certainly channelled through a third party non government body. If the money trail can be followed successfully, and be seen to emanate from the Iranian authorities, then it will be useful to be able to nail it on the door, for all to see a Democratic Left/Islamic Supremacist alliance in lurid detail.

    • Asturiano says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 1:35 am

      You’re right, of course. But the alliance you speak of isn’t real. There’s no alliance, only money being given and taken, which is bad enough already.

  3. max says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    In Hungary the supported the NAZI Party Jobbik-The Jobbik leader sayed once:Islam is the only hope for the world….

  4. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 1:03 am

    Notice that the name of the party seems to be derived from Obama’s slogan “Yes we can.” Podemos means “we can,” right?

    • Fran says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 2:44 am

      Yes, it does. Spaniard here, these guys from Podemos are just crazy though… hell, they were founded by Maduro for fuck’s sake!

  5. TH says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 3:17 am

    The Podemos Party is now the third biggest in Spain after recent elections. It is extemely dangerous and it is not beyong posisbility that it could get into the goverrment and ruin the country as has already happened in Venezuela.

  6. Charli Main says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 5:57 am

    Muslims still claim Spain as ” their land” from which they were driven out by invading “Crusaders”. So, Muslims flooding Spain with money is no surprise. The fact that the Muslims are the invaders that attacked Spain in 717AD and drove out/ subjugated the native Christian inhabitants is irrelevant in the Muslim mind set.
    You might be surprised by the numbers of Spanish that rant on about their ” Islamic heritage” . Moors and Christian fiestas are commonplace, with the Moors always portrayed as sophisticated noble warriors.

    • Jack says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 8:21 am

      The biggest irony of all those Spanish people who proudly proclaim Islamic heritage is that the Spanish culture they live in is hugely incompatible to Islam. A love of alcohol, being lax with your faith, hams, uncovered women, sexual freedom and a Catholic heart at its centre. I wonder how many of these things Islam is fond of……

      The image of the moors has been over romanticised in the west, and unfortunately the leftists in Spain see their countries history as being massively privileged for its ‘beautiful’ ‘multicultural’ past overseen by the big old nice cuddly bear, Islam. Spain could be in danger of being invaded once again sadly, just as the rest of Europe…

      • Charli Main says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 1:34 pm

        Living in Spain for the last 15 years and with a modest command of the language, I agree with your comments. The ignorance, of a large body of the Spanish, regards their ” Muslim past” is staggering. They actually believe the shyte of the ” Islamic golden years” and the culture and civilization that the ” Moors” brought to Spain.
        Another fact I can confirm, is the Muslim re-invasion of Spain is in full swing. I have seen an exponential rise in the numbers of burkas and black garbage bags walking around the streets, in recent years.
        It took the Spanish some 800 years to kick the Muslim invaders out of their country and now they are allowing them back in by the ship load and giving them passports.

  7. Jay Boo says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 7:52 am

    Bill Clinton reportedly received money by way of Indonesia when he was running for president.

    What ever happened to that story, I wonder.
    Was there simply no proof or did the liberal news media run interference for Bill and cover it up with a flood of distraction?

  8. El Cid says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 8:19 am

    Given the unprofessionalism of the press, especially in Europe, one can’t be sure this is more than a rumor. However, this is exactly the line of investigation that needs to be followed.

    Why would leftists/socialist parties in Europe be so eager to support Islam and suppress any popular dessent? One very important element would be direct investment in their political activities.

    We saw the worst case of this in Argentina when the government colluded with Iran to bomb the Jewish community center there resulting in nearly 100 deaths.

  9. ---mrbiggs says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 8:41 am

    This story sounds a theme that I wish were much more written about and addressed:
    The world of Islamic financial influence in American and world political airs. Do the Clinton Foundation, American universities, and US pols receive money from Islamists and their governments?
    When? How much? And if so, What is done on their behalf? Does the Democratic Party get money from such Islamic sources? Or even some Republicans? Please, journalists…do your jobs about this!

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