Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is in Venezuela “at the start of a Latin American tour that will also take him to Cuba and Bolivia.” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza tweeted: “Every high-level visit deepens our strategic alliance, our brotherhood.” Iran has also been shipping oil and food to Venezuela, and agreed to install […]
Trump administration to sell Iranian fuel meant for Venezuela, give $40 million in proceeds to jihad terror victims
“So that is both poetic and tangible justice.” Indeed. “Trump admin to sell Iranian fuel meant for Venezuela, give proceeds to terror victims,” Associated Press, October 30, 2020: The Trump administration plans to use proceeds from the sale of fuel confiscated from Iranian tankers to benefit victims of terrorism, officials announced Thursday. The US military […]
US seizes ‘largest-ever’ Iranian fuel shipment headed to Venezuela, 1.1 million barrels of petroleum
In recent months, Iran has been strengthening its alliance with Venezuela. The Iranian regime’s proxy Hizballah has also been expanding its activities there. The Iran-Venezuela relationship is nothing new: In 2010-2011, Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, sent fuel to Iran, which was targeted by sanctions aimed at stifling its nuclear weapons program. In March, the […]
Islamic Republic of Iran ships food to socialist Venezuela, where first Iranian supermarket is set to open
Iran is rapidly expanding its influence in Venezuela. It “delivered a large food shipment to its crisis-stricken ally Venezuela…to set up the country’s first Persian supermarket…..As well as food supplies, Tehran also sent a shipment of humanitarian aid, including vital medical supplies and coronavirus testing kits, to help Venezuela battle the ongoing pandemic.” Last month, […]
Iran sends petrol tankers to gas-starved ally Venezuela, Iran’s president threatens U.S. if it interferes
Venezuela is strengthening its alliance with Iran. “The first of five ships laden with Iranian petrol crossed in to Venezuelan waters on Sunday in defiance of US sanctions, after Tehran and Caracas warned Washington over any attempt to intercept them.” Iran also threatened America, should it “interfere”: Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani warned the US….that his […]
Iran’s jihad proxy Hizballah slams Trump for “US imperialism” in Venezuela
Hizballah has been active in Latin America for decades and uses the drug trade to raise money for its jihad activities. Hizballah is active in Mexico and South America, and “last year, Politico published an in-depth exposé about how President Barack Obama deliberately ignored Hezbollah in Latin America because he did not want to jeopardize […]
Convergence of crime and jihad terror as Venezuela harbors Hizballah, Chinese Triad and Russian Mafia
The struggling socialist Venezuelan regime, a global hub for crime-terror convergence, has been harboring criminal and terrorist groups such as Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, Chinese Triads, the Russian Mafia, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia It is already of grave concern that Venezuela’s Vice President, Tareck El Aissami, “is a known entity in the world […]
Hizballah joins with Latin American drug cartels, creating major threat to Florida
An Islamic paramilitary organization financed by Iran has infiltrated large swaths of South America, joined forces with drug cartels and created a major threat to Florida and the rest of the U.S., experts testified at a Congressional Field Hearing in Pensacola on Monday about Hezbollah’s gains in the Western Hemisphere. The same infiltration of drug […]
Venezuela selling passports to Iraqis, may have sold them to jihadis
Clearly the Venezuelans didn’t do stringent background checks on those to whom they issued these fraudulent passports, and it would have been easy for jihadis to gain access to the fake passports. Lopez speaks about this operation taking place in the Venezuelan embassy in Iraq. If it was happening there, there is no reason why […]
9 Trinidadians nabbed on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State
“A Turkish newspaper Monday reported that nine Trinidad and Tobago nationals were detained after the police nabbed a Syrian man suspected of attempting to smuggle them into southern Turkey to join the ISIS terrorist organization.” In fact, several Several Muslim Trinidad nationals have joined the Islamic State; Trinidad’s Abu Bakr remains the one man responsible […]
Brazil “an operational hub for Iran and Islamic Terrorism”
And Peru and Venezuela are part of “the intricate network set up to ‘export Iran’s Islamic Revolution’ to the West,” while Argentina is apparently an active participant. “Dead Argentine prosecutor was zeroing in on a terror threat to the entire Western Hemisphere,” by Linette Lopez, Business Insider, March 20, 2015: As days go by, the […]
Trinidad Muslims travel to Venezuela for jihadist training
Their jihad training, oddly enough, included high-powered weapons, even though Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslims are outraged that the 9/11 Memorial and Museum would dare suggest that jihad had something to do with violence. I expect that Ibrahim Hooper and Nihad Awad of Hamas-linked CAIR are on their way to Trinidad and/or Venezuela now, so […]
Miami: U.S. orders expulsion of Venezuelan consul general linked to Iranian cyber-attack plot
“The State Department had said last month it was looking into ‘very disturbing’ allegations that Acosta was a participant in an alleged Iranian plot to launch cyber-attacks on sensitive US national security facilities.” “US orders expulsion of Venezuelan consul,” by Jim Mannion for the Associated Press, January 8: The United States has ordered the expulsion […]
U.S. officials: Jihadists in South America
“The United States has determined that Islamic insurgency groups based in the Middle East have established operations in South America.” (Maybe they read about it here.) “U.S. officials said Middle East insurgents use South America to raise money through drug trafficking and other illegal activities. They said the Islamic groups also employ South America to […]