“The threat to U.S. national security interests and our allies should be setting off alarm bells. The Obama administration has failed to prevent Russia and China from expanding in our Hemisphere, and now Iran is once again stepping up its efforts to gain a greater presence to carry out its nefarious activities.”
And Obama is financing their efforts.
“Iran Expanding Terror Network in Latin America,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 23, 2016:
Iran is solidifying its foothold in Latin America, sparking concerns among U.S. officials that the Islamic Republic will enlist these regional allies in its push to launch terror attacks on U.S. soil, according to conversations with congressional sources.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has been on a diplomatic tour through key Latin American countries known for hostility towards the United States, including Cuba, Venezuela, and a host of other countries believed to be providing shelter to Iranian terrorist proxies such as Hezbollah.
As Iranian-ally Russia boosts its spy operation in the region, sources have raised concerns about the rogue nations working together to foster anti-U.S. unrest.
ADVERTISINGZarif’s trip through the region has raised red flags among some senior congressional sources familiar with the region. For example, Zarif took aim at the United States and touted the regime’s desire to align with anti-American countries during his stay in Cuba.
One senior congressional source who works on the issue said to the Washington Free Beacon that Iran is seeking to recruit “potential terrorists who want to cause the U.S. harm.”
Increased ties between Iran and these Latin American nations are setting the stage for terrorists to penetrate close to U.S. soil with little detection.
These individuals “can travel easily to Venezuela, and once there, they can get to Nicaragua or Cuba without passports or visas, which poses a national security risk for our nation,” the source explained.
Iran has also reopened its embassy in Chile, a move that has only added fuel to speculation among U.S. officials that the Islamic Republic is making moves to position its global terror network on America’s doorstep.
“The threat to U.S. national security interests and our allies should be setting off alarm bells,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R., Fla.), chair of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement about Zarif’s Latin American tour.
“The Obama administration has failed to prevent Russia and China from expanding in our Hemisphere, and now Iran is once again stepping up its efforts to gain a greater presence to carry out its nefarious activities,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “I urge the White House to stop downplaying the Iranian threat and take immediate action to prevent the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism from establishing a regional safe haven in the Americas.”…

Sergio says
We are Christians here in Latin America and we hate Islam. We should be complaining about your Muslim president, whom you elected twice. Don’t try to show us, Latin Americans, us Muslim supporters. You are the ones who are exporting pro-Islamic propaganda throughout the world thanks to Clinton and the liberal media. Furthermore, your neighbor Canada is importing Muslims by the thousands. All these savages are going to end up causing problems to Latin America in the future. For instance, do you think we wanted to receive Guantanamo prisoners such as the Syrian that Obama has sent us and that fortunately escaped Uruguay as soon as he could?
Angemon says
Sergio posted:
“ For instance, do you think we wanted to receive Guantanamo prisoners such as the Syrian that Obama has sent us and that fortunately escaped Uruguay as soon as he could?”
I don’t know. What did your government say about it?
Sergio says
The retard leftist president of Uruguay did it without any referendum or anything of the sort. Perhaps the US threw gave him a few undeclared millions of dollars and that was it. So, when you cannot handle your terrorists anymore you send them to us. Is that fair?
Angemon says
Sergio posted:
“The retard leftist president of Uruguay did it without any referendum or anything of the sort.”
Then I don’t see how that is the US’s fault.
“Perhaps the US threw gave him a few undeclared millions of dollars and that was it.”
Perhaps. Perhaps not, seeing how you described him as “leftist” – I usually don’t associate leftists with people who take cash bribes to do the biding of the US. Much to the contrary – I associate leftism with anti-Americanism. Including left-leaning American citizens, who I believe go the extra mile to compensate for their nationality.
“So, when you cannot handle your terrorists anymore you send them to us. Is that fair?”
I’m not American. What do you mean by “your terrorists”? Are they American citizens? Because I doubt that the American government can send American citizens your way and make them your problem. Or anyone from a nationality other than your own, as long as your government doesn’t agree to take them.
Sergio says
I don’t know from what corner of the world did the US bring the Guantanamo inmates, but it wasn’t from Latin America. Then, profiting from the high levels of corruption in Latin America, they decided to send those detainees to Latin America, which had nothing whatsoever to do neither with Guantanamo nor with those terrorists. Now, if you have a single functioning brain cell withing your skull, answer this question: who in his right mind would want to have terrorists send to his country? No one of course. However, this is not a problem for the US. The US just pays a few millions to some corrupted Latin American president to accept those detainees.
I don’t give a damn if your leftists are American or anti-American. All I know is that the US always dump its garbage on Latin America and that Islam is certainly a garbage that the US and Canada are bringing into the Americas. The US caused the Middle Eastern crisis that led to the flood of “refugees” into Europe. Now Merkel, your friend, is trying to send these “refugees” to Argentina. Canada is a retard, gay country that is as pro-Islamic as their British masters. They have the largest Islamic population in the Americas.
Angemon says
Sergio posted:
“Then, profiting from the high levels of corruption in Latin America”
Citation needed.
“they decided to send those detainees to Latin America”
What,receiving South American nations had no saying in it whatsoever?
“Now, if you have a single functioning brain cell withing your skull, answer this question: who in his right mind would want to have terrorists send to his country?”
How about you ask that to the people who agreed to take in Guantanamo inmates?
“The US just pays a few millions to some corrupted Latin American president to accept those detainees.”
You’ve made this accusation before. Where’s the evidence to back it? I submit to you that the people responsible for the taking of Gitmo inmates into their nations, being anti-American, saw them as fellow anti-American travellers – their enemy’s enemy is their friend.
“I don’t give a damn if your leftists are American or anti-American. ”
It’s not mine or yours, it’s all of them. Name me one leftist party/government in the world who openly advocates for American-style freedoms, like freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. And you should care, considering the leftist-islamic alliance grounded on hatred of the US. The more left-leaning a party/government is, the more anti-American it is, and the more permeable to islamic infiltration it becomes on the grounds of having a common enemy.
“All I know is that the US always dump its garbage on Latin America”
Blame the US – always popular in South America…
“Islam is certainly a garbage that the US and Canada are bringing into the Americas.”
Into US and Canadian soil? Sure. Into South America? Take it up with your leaders. Because last time I checked, muslims were mingling with Mexican coyotes and pretending to be Mexicans to enter the US via their Southern border, not the other way around. And I certainly doubt that all and any muslim in South America got there because of the US. Ever heard if the Revolta dos Malês? “Malê” was what Brazilians called muslim slaves. The Malês started a rebellion to overthrow the Brazilian government, end Catholicism, impose an islamic monarchy and enslave all non-muslims. This was in 1835 – long before the US’s dreamed of meddling in the ME.
“Now Merkel, your friend”
Fun fact: I never met Merkel, nor do I consider her a friend of mine. You can see that reflected in ratio between the number of posts I authored supporting and/or defending her (zero) and the number of posts where I criticize her and her policies (greater than zero).
“ is trying to send these “refugees” to Argentina. ”
And Argentina is under no obligation to take any of them. Excelentísimo Señor Macri can (and should) tell Merkel to shove the “refugees” in her own backyard. If he, for whatever reason, decides to take any number of them in, the blame rests with the Argentinian government.
JayT says
I’d like to make a few corrections to some misguided items you mentioned. Obama was re-elected by a lesser margin the second time around which meant more Americans, but not enough I grant you that, figured out he was a bad apple.
The actual bridge to Iran was definitely in South America, and you can thank the late Hugo Chavez for that. Just as your comments indicated about your own perspective towards the U.S., Hugo Chavez hated America so much he was blind to jumping in bed with those who would prove to be far worse.
Maybe he just didn’t care. HC tried to invite the Russians to house nuclear bombers in Venezuela and when they turned him down, HC asked if China would like to house military forces in his country. Finally, he found Iran, an arch-enemy of the U.S. and gleefully signed over 75 treaties with the Mullahs thus bringing in Hezbollah etc. into Latin America.
So if you want to argue that America was responsible, you’d have to argue it in a silly way that “he made me sign a contract with the devil because I hated him that much”.
Another idiotic item you mentioned was the way you seem to say Canada is not a sovereign nation and the U.S. should not have allowed Canada to import Muslims by the plane load. Yes, in fact, Canada is a sovereign nation and doesn’t take its direction from the U.S.
I think after Latin America tried to jump in bed with 2 known conquest based empires, Russia and China, and settled for the devil of the Middle East, you might want to drop your ingrained prejudices against the U.S. and worry about your own self made messes. China consistently sends its fishing vessels to illegally net trawl your fish from your territorial waters and you have no navy to speak of so can do not a damn thing about it. Yes, it’s still going on to this day.
The last time I checked Jane’s defense, Canada has 1 lousy destroyer that comprises its navy. What both of you have in common is without the U.S. that you despise, conquest nations from the smallest to the largest would have already easily overwhelmed the both of you. Your welcome……
Angemon says
“My enemy’s enemy is my friend” – except when it is also your enemy and you fail tp see it.
duh swami says
You are chastising the wrong people…Islam can’t get into Latin America unless some Latin Americans give them aid and comfort…
Sergio says
I can assure you that there are many, many more pro-Islamic people in the US and Canada than in Latin America. For starters, we don’t have Muslim presidents posing as Christians in Latin America. You do. Our next president does not have a woman with clear links to the Muslim brotherhood as her right hand. Yours does.
duh swami says
Numbers are deceptive…It only takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel…
I appreciate that you hate Islam, but you are playing the blame game and painting with a wide brush… suggest you clean up your own back yard before complaining about others…
Sergio says
You are the one playing the blame game. The US is the most Islamic-infiltrated country in the Americas. Your own president wears a ring that contains the Islamic declaration of faith. And you elected him twice. Most of the Muslims in the Americas live either in Canada or in the US. Hillary Clinton gets at least a third of her funding from the Arabic countries and has Muslim Brotherhood operatives in her entourage. You have Muslims converts who have plotted Jihad attacks as well as American Muslims of foreign descent who have perpetrated Islamic attacks. If that weren’t enough, your moral and cultural relativism and your rejection of Christianity and its values has led to widespread pro-Islamic propaganda. Unfortunately, this propaganda has transcended your borders and is affecting the way in which the world sees Islam and its tenets. To summarize, if it weren’t for the US, Islam wouldn’t be such a big threat neither to the European Union nor to Latin America.
Angemon says
Sergio posted:
“You are the one playing the blame game.”
He wrote, after blaming the US for the spread of islam in South America…
“ To summarize, if it weren’t for the US, Islam wouldn’t be such a big threat neither to the European Union nor to Latin America.”
Playing the blame game again, I see… Anyway, Revolta dos Malês – look it up, then explain me how that was due to the US.
duh swami says
You are the one playing the blame game.
I didn’t blame anyone…What have you done to stop Islam from invading your country?
Sergio says
I write in Spanish about the true tenets of Islam in almost on a daily basis.
Sergio says
Thank you, Mac! God bless you.
SAKOVKT says
As an American, I offer no defense of Progressive Americans.
They are basically Imperialists, from Teddy Roosevelt through Wilson, FDR, LBJ and Obama.
That One World Gov’t is basically a Progressive Idea, since the League of Nations, now the U.N.
They don’t see themselves as empire builders because of the republic charade of the thing, but imperial diets are really nothing new.
IMO, Progressives pursue the universal religion in the same vein as the Ancient Romans.
One God, One Emperor, One Empire, and never mind all the people subjugated under it.
History can be seen a perennial struggle between nations and empires, each of which were fine, until they blew it : bad governance.
In the last century, Christianity was to be the universal Progressive religion, with some modifications to accommodate the new emperors, of course (which made it paradoxically unchristian.)
But after the Marxist Revolution and the rise of atheist secularism, Progressives may understand Islam as the new unifying, imperial religion, once again, with modifications to accommodate the new emperors.
Of course, this sort of thing has never worked out.
But, put a new face on an old idea, and suddenly, it’s new again!
daniel says
iam from mexico sergio…and we dont like those muslims either
duh swami says
Iran is using the Shaw’s money to further the causes of Allah…Obama bin Kerry knew they would do that, but they didn’t care…
Berengaria says
Please, we need no one else to tell us the Government of the USA is rotten to the core, we live under the Devils who are now ruling over us.
Islam sneaked in under the coat tails of BO, but first, the Bush-Clinton families paved the way.
This has been coming for years & when 9/11/2001 occurred, the call from the mosque was given, Bush led his sheep(us) to the slaughter.
So, please, you can not tell us what we already know, It is now acceptable for Muslims to kill Americans, without any concern, no one CARES.
Walter Sieruk says
The title alone of the above article reveals much. The heading that “Iran expanding jihad terror network in Latin America” . shows that the Shi ‘ite Islam of Iran is expanding into that continent . To explain this as by using an allegory. This is like the spread of a plague of a terrible deadly infectious disease. There many sites that cover this topic of the Islamic plague. other in this site. the most well known is ,of course,. http://www.pamelageller.com In addition there are also other sites faithfreedom.org and citizenwarrior.org
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
In regards to your deadly infectious disease analogy I will say this: Muhammed was patient Zero.
yohanan says
Not to forget the Iran/Hezbollah bombings in 1992 of the Israel Embassy and in 1994 of the Amia Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_attack_on_Israeli_embassy_in_Buenos_Aires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing
Also see recent post -Matthew Levitt. Iran and Hezbollah Remain Hyperactive in Latin America. August 11, 2016 http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iran-and-hezbollah-remain-hyperactive-in-latin-america >”A region routinely called “the United Nations of crime,” a classic “terrorist safe haven,” and a counterfeiting capital, the Tri-Border Area of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina is a natural home for operatives seeking to build financial and logistical Hezbollah support networks within existing Shia and Lebanese diaspora communities.”
miriamrove says
No kidding. There is no place on the planet that muslims are not terrorizing. They are every where. m
John A. Marre says
The current occupant of the oval office is responsible for this. But we know he won’t be held accountable by the media.
Jay Boo says
One small step.
Boycott German autos that use Iranian made parts.
Bruce Allan says
You can thank el Chavisto for this tragedy
Ciudadano says
This is old news. Latin American left’s fatal romance with jihadists has being going on for several decades. Since Che Guevara Latin American Marxist guerrillas use to train along with Islamisc terrorists. Just watch the movie about terrorist Carlos “El Chacal”.
It was Hugo Chaves who established close relations with Iran government. He allowed Hezbollah and other terrorist organization to establish training camps in Venezuela. Those terrorist organization now are involve in drug traffic to Europe.
The amazing part is that this operation has been going on for several years and nobody is doing nothing to stop this.
Ciudadano says
I’ve visited Panama regularly the last 10 years. In my last travel a couple of months ago I noticed for the first time many women donning fill burkas and men wearing long robes and beards “a la Mohamed”, groups of girls and boys wearing robes and burkas, probably madrasas students. It seems to me that in the last 5 years Panama’s Muslims are becoming more fundamentalists. This is consistent with what’s is going on in the rest of the world.
Champ says
“Iran Expanding Terror Network in Latin America,”
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Fill in the blank: Iran Expanding Terror Network in _______________________; since Iran wants to bring terror to your country, too.
Champ says
Michael Johnson says
Latin America is stupid if they trust the Iranians because they are Muslims if they hate us because we are not Muslims what do the Latin American countries think they will do to them they will turn the gun right on them
Mr Flagio says
BTW you can be really happy that the Russian Air Force is successfully dealing with the threats in Syria. While for years the US coalition has abysmally failed and still is failing in this fake attempt and is still wasting untold millions of taxpayer dollars.
This is well known to people who do not use MSM like Fox or CNN for their news source.
charliematerne says
Robert: did you lose your mind? You should know that Islamic terrorism can not set of “alarm bells” anywhere in the world. Islam forbids bells! How can you ring a ball you are forbidden to have?
John A. Marre says
Is that why Obama arranged for them to get so much money from us?
Guest says
We need to bring back the nuclear weapons. Iran needs to be finally put I their place.