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Trump Administration countering Iran’s influence in Latin America and winning key support

Jan 26, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“The Trump administration’s push to counter Iran’s influence in South America won key support from leaders in the region in recent days, with three Latin American nations officially declaring Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.”

The work of Iranian jihadist proxies worldwide is underrated and under reported. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo captures the magnitude of the Iranian proxy problem well in this statement:

 When you see the scope and reach of what the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime has done, you can’t forget they tried to kill someone in the United States of America. They’ve conducted assassination campaigns in Europe. This is a global phenomenon.

And the phenomenon of narcoterrorism is linked to Iranian proxy Hizballah, as indicated in this exposé by the Washington Times: “Hezbollah moving ‘tons of cocaine’ in Latin America, Europe to finance terror operation.”

“Trump administration homing in on Iran-backed operations in Latin America,” by Guy Taylor, Washington Times, January 23, 2020:

The Trump administration’s push to counter Iran’s influence in South America won key support from leaders in the region in recent days, with three Latin American nations officially declaring Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras have now officially joined with Paraguay and Argentina in recognizing the designation, with the new conservative government in Bogota joining with Washington in declaring Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization as well.

At a counterterrorism conference in Bogota this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other U.S. officials underscored the global reach of Lebanon-based Hezbollah — a Shia Muslim militant-political movement and a part of the Lebanese political establishment that Washington has listed as a terrorist organization since the late 1990s.

Hezbollah was a big winner in the political upheaval that has gripped Lebanon this month, with new government made up of appointees nominated by Hezbollah and its allies — a development that has worried both the U.S. and Israel, Lebanon’s neighbor. Counterterrorism analysts consider the well-armed Hezbollah one of Tehran’s most effective military proxies in the region.

Heading into this week’s conference in Bogota, State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Nathan Sales told the Miami Herald and Nuevo Herald that U.S. officials “know that Hezbollah operatives and facilitators and finance leaders are active” in the loosely governed “Tri-Border Area” between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

U.S. and Israeli officials say Hezbollah orchestrated and executed a 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina that killed 29 people, as well as a 1994 attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead…..

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Filed Under: Argentina, Colombia, Donald Trump, Featured, Guatemala, Hizballah, Honduras, Iran, Paraguay, United States Tagged With: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)


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  1. Templer says

    Jan 26, 2020 at 8:45 am

    Trump is a good man saviore of. the Jews and chirstains he will do it with gods help I will allso say he will get realected for a second term people live like there gods look at Iran look at America enouygh said

    • Kepha says

      Jan 26, 2020 at 12:48 pm

      I voted for Trump, and will probably vote for him again, but the only Saviour is Jesus Christ.

    • Valkyrie Ziege says

      Jan 27, 2020 at 10:59 am

      ; Perhaps you should wait ’til after your morning cup-o’-coffee before commenting, and pay attention to spell-check.

  2. RCCA says

    Jan 26, 2020 at 1:24 pm

    Good news. The best news I’ve read today. Thanks for the report!

  3. Battle says

    Jan 26, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    The local drug lords let the thugs of arab Hezbollah mussle in on them?

    • Just Venting says

      Jan 27, 2020 at 1:29 am

      Battle:

      Although this has been going on since at least the late 60’s, and has been publicized on TV, in magazines, and books; most people are not aware of how closely many different groups work together to subvert the Westernized countries.

      It is a complete underground economy. It is like making stew. Throw together drug lords with cash, subversives with weapons and training, would be revolutionaries that want training and weapons, countries and groups that hate the west, and guess what? They start working together to achieve their goals. Smuggle whatever for cash, exchange drugs for training & weapons, take on a hit for pay, kidnap and/or extort, regardless of political posture (far right v far left) or religion (atheist, muslim, so-called Christian). What joins them is hate for us.

      The Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay tri-border area is a well known conduit for counterfeit goods (largely from China, but could be the middle east as well), terrorists (especially jihad types), and weapons. Brazil’s new president is often compared to DJT. He needs to join the others to try and close down that border mess. Unfortunately, Brazil is riddled with gangs that run large areas of the cities. Cracking down on that mess is easier said than done.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jan 26, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    Trump Administration countering Iran’s influence in Latin America and winning key support
    ………………..

    So glad to see this–especially since this situation in Latin America has often seemed to be below the radar of even many Anti-Jihadists.

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