Iranian President Ahmadinejad has been traveling, looking for someone who would recognize him as the legitimate head of government. Most Iranians certainly don’t, and his stock is pretty low in his own region. So he flew to South America, from Brazil–where President Lula was very friendly–and continued to Venezuela to visit his co-conspirator Hugo Chavez. He arrived to considerable pomp, but the military band at the airport played the pre-revolutionary (i.e., the shah’s) anthem, which could not have pleased the little leader.
But the alliance with Chavez is working well, which troubles one of the best men on the continent, Alberto Nisman, Argentina’s courageous prosecutor who has indicted Iranian and Hezbollah leaders for the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Social Center. Nisman appeared at an event sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (where I hang my cloak), and warned about the Iranian penetration of Latin America.
He said that Iran, particularly through Lebanese proxy Hizbullah, has a growing presence in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, using techniques it honed in Argentina before the country took measures to counter Teheran following the AMIA bombing.
He described sham operations involving taxi drivers, who conducted surveillance without arousing suspicion; fake medical school students, who could stay in the country for many years without raising eyebrows; and business fronts that helped funnel cash to operatives.
Meanwhile, the Iranians cultivated ties at the local mosques to search for people who could be radicalized.
It’s a template developed in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is now the dominant political force, and we had better pay attention, because it is undoubtedly being applied here. Hezbollah cells were already present in the United States back in the 1980s, when I was privy to such information.
Michael: Thanks! Blogged it. Cheers!
“Will it fall Monday?”
Inshallah!
But there should be signs: high level officials moving their money and families out of the country and making preparations to bug out themselves if needs be, important members of the regime covering their backsides with quiet approaches to the opposition, some kind of intra-regime inter-factional winner-take-all struggle, with the winner on top and the loser executed (eg- the fall of Robespierre, Hitler’s Night of Long Knives; Stalin’s removal and eventual physical elimination of Kamenev, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Trotsky and their supporters, the arrest of the Gang of Four).
Have you seen any signs that the hard core of the regime – i.e. the people surrounding Khamenei and Ahmadinejad- is cracking?
And WHY did the Obama administration not immediately support the protesters trying to overthrow the Ahmadinejad government after that sham election? Somebody please explain why this government of ours is afraid to confront a state that sponsors terrorism all over the world, from Hezbollah and Hamas to South America? Is this an example of “Smart” power? I think it’s more an example of “Soft” power, the power for soft-headed people. Why are we still even talking to the Iranians? Can’t Obama get it through his thick head that the Iranians are global sponsors of terror and that they HATE the West, especially the United States? I firmly believe that, before Obama is thrown out of office in 2012, there will be a major terrorist attack on American soil, something on the scale of 9/11, and that Iran will be behind it. The Sunni radicals aren’t the only ones that are out to destroy (yes, destroy) us. The Shias in Iran would love to do the same thing, only with themselves taking control over the entire Middle East. But hatred for the West, for Christianity, and for the United States in particular, are the only things they have in common. I’m just wondering when Obama is going to wake up to that fact.
thanks for keeping an eye on the situation.
to bad there is no desire to encourage the freedoms in Iran from the White House.
libertship46, take a look at all that is known about “Cold eye’d I contemplate the world”, and then add what can be surmised about it.
The deformed soul in the Oval Office, and the hordes of deformed souls, zombies, reprobates and other ilk simply do not want to see anything
that would prove them wrong. Hence the blinders
are fixed.
Count Down to an Implosion
As much as I like to believe, it is not because of the “Green Movement”, that the Clerical Regime is in trouble! It is the economy of Iran that is heading for the bunker. Historically speaking, of course fellow Iranians strove in tougher times, but falling to what is the norm in today’s Afghanistan, or even Pakistan is out of question for Iranian citizenship. Unfortunately, the Iranian diaspora that is currently against the Khomeinist government, has never made a historic bond with intellectuals and democratic movements in gross quantities, partially due to its conservative nature. Also for half a century of Pahlavi Dynasty (Shah and his Father) the Iranian intellectuals and all forms of democratic expressions were banned and muzzled by Pahlavi’s dynasty. That is why when the revolution erupted in 1978 the religious gang of Khomeini was the only pseudo-intellectual game in town, where the conservative masses could safely side with. Unfortunately, the 16th of Azar (Monday) is an Intellectual anniversary that the conservative masses are not completely aligned with, historically. Therefore, not a major “paradigm shift” is to be expected there. However, the economic situation is heading to a vortex that if to be combined with meaningful Gasoline and refined oil embargo, Sea, Air, and Land monitoring of borders; the Mollah regime cannot survive beyond 2 to 3 months. In fact a game of “rush to the bank” has already started and heads of the state and their relatives and cronies are exchanging large sums of money to assure transactions of cheaper dollars before much hypothesized double to triple priced dollars hit the black market. The smell of a sinking ship finally has awakened all the rats, so to speak. In such a condition, the world economic leadership is quite important, and despite the fact that the American Government is not privy to such mastery, its assistant still could be of tremendous help. In a world: Iran despotic regime is crumbling down and the downward spiral is already started. Yet, every day that this “archaic and rotten dragon” lingers further it sucks-up life of many Iranians and threatens the civilized world more and more. Just plan to assist it implode and blasted out faster, please!
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to think that our backyard is secure…so we ignore the “little countries” that are potentially ablle to cause great harm. Cuba, Venezuala, Nicagua (sp?), etc. I suspect that unless something is done about Iran very soon, they will cause us tremendous problem in central and south America.
ML…
“15. In more serious news, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today that he has concrete evidence that the US was trying to prevent the Hidden Imam from descending on earth. (The Hidden Imam is the 12th and final Imam of Shi’ites who is said to return to earth during the final days and usher in the apocalypse)”
Hardly. We’ve got enough problems with our own messiah…
Farhad: I am assuming you are from Iran as I am…
the train has already left the station and I am sure that these a…holes see their days numbered.
I would like to also add that there is a huge division within this government… that is going to cause their collapse even faster…
Farhad: I discovered this site a few month ago and it has become a place to laugh my ass off!! I had no Idea there were so many black and muslim hating high school drop outs here!! what brings you to this site?
FIrst Israieel must not exist, first criminal cult in the world is Israeel.
Ahmadi Nejad is the only Man you donot belive me as your mother.
Aron Isreel