US Overlooks Iran's Moves in the Western Hemisphere

Several years ago, I posted threads regarding the expansion of Hezbollah in the Americas. When I saw this article today, I was rather taken back by how well things are coming along: U.S. focusing on nuke threat, overlooking Iran's moves in this hemispshere...

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Iran has been working covertly not only in Canada and the United States but has also been fostering strong ties with an anti-U.S. set of countries in South America: Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.

The USA has largely failed to take proper note Iran’s well-funded ambitions in these countries. Rather, it has sought to counter Iran’s influence in the Middle East and its attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.

Iran has meanwhile has been forging multiple alliances worldwide. The government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in particular, has employed diplomatic, economic and military strategies to gain a long-term foothold in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.

In 2005, I laid out Hugo Chavez' ambitions after some discussion was a colleague, Kenneth Rijock, about our little fat friend.

Hugo was buddies with the late Kim Jung II of North Korea and has been best love with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran for several years. I also discussed that Nicaragua and its Marxist mentor, Danny Ortega, was in the thick of things with Chavez, Jung Il, and Ahmadinejad, and also that Hezbollah has a firm stronghold in South America.

Todays article sounds very similar to what I discussed almost seven years ago and in gaining traction in the Americas. In 2002. Jeffrey Goldberg, contributing correspondent to the New Yorker penned an article about Hezbollah in South America that the mainstream media and State Department has marginalized for years.

"Roughly two hundred thousand people live in the Cinda del Este region, including a substantial minority of Arab Muslims; in the Triple Frontier zone, ( Geography note from Bosun: tri-border area, along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil )there may be as many as thirty thousand. According to intelligence officials in the region and in Washington, this Muslim community has in its midst a hard core of terrorists, many of them associated with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group backed by the Iranian government; some with Hamas, the Palestinian fundamentalist group; and some with Al Qaeda. It is, over all, a community under the influence of extreme Islamic beliefs; intelligence officials told me that some of the Triple Frontier Arabs held celebrations on September 11th of last year and also on the anniversary this year. These officials said that Hezbollah runs weekend training camps on farms cut out of the rain forest of the Triple Frontier. In at least one of these camps, in the remote jungle terrain near Foz do Iguaçu, young adults get weapons training and children are indoctrinated in Hezbollah ideology — a mixture of anti-American and anti-Jewish views inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini. source Jeffrey Goldberg , originally posted in the New Yorker Magazine, 2002

Guess Old Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a little ahead of his time when he banged his shoe on the table and said he was going to bury our western democracy asses. We have marginalized the threat from Islamic extremists and organizations like Hezbollah for many years.

I suspect that America and the Free World will eventually succumb to its own marginalization. We will apologize and appease ourselves into oblivion...