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Morning Bell: Iran Conducting Anti-U.S. Operations in Latin America
By Mike Brownfield
December 12, 2011 at 10:09 am
An attack on the British embassy in Tehran. A desperate pursuit of
nuclear weapons. A plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in
Washington. Alone, any one of these actions by Iran’s regime would be
cause for alarm, but taken together they make it undeniably clear that
the Iranian threat cannot be ignored. Now, there is news of another
effort by Iran to take aim at the United States, this time coming from
Latin America.
Heritage’s Israel Ortega and James Phillips explain:
“Iran is conducting anti-U.S. operations from Latin America, including
military training camps in Venezuela, and expanding its reach across
the border from the U.S. in Mexico, according to footage unveiled late
Thursday by the largest Spanish-language network in the United States,
Univision.
The documentary showed a former Iran senior official accepting a plan
to launch from Mexico a cyber war on the United States, one that would
cripple U.S. computer systems, including the White House, the FBI, the
CIA and several nuclear plants. The official, former Iranian
Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri, was shown accepting the
offer from undercover Mexican university students. A trailer to the
documentary can be seen on Foundry.org."
Other revelations in the documentary include undercover Mexican
students presenting plans for the cyber attack to Venezuelan officials
in Mexico. Ortega and Phillips write that the Venezuelan official
appeared very receptive to the plot, saying that she was close to
Venezuela’s hard-leftist President Hugo Chavez and that she would love
to share the information with him as soon as possible. The same
happened with Cuban officials in Mexico, who were equally interested
in a plot against the United States.
The documentary, called “The Iranian Threat,” claims that undercover
journalists were also able to infiltrate Iranian military training
camps working from mosques in Venezuela, though it showed no actual
footage of the camps. Univision alleged there were links between the
alleged camps and a radical Muslim implicated in the 1994 Buenos Aires
bombing of a synagogue that killed 85 and wounded hundreds. The
Iranian lives in Argentina, a country that also has strong ties to
Chavez.
Ortega and Phillips write that the “ties between the hard line
Islamist government in Tehran and the anti-American government of
President Hugo Chavez have been growing for years, including a weekly
secretive Cairo-Tehran flight that is of grave concerns to U.S.
officials.” They also point out other disturbing findings in the
report:
“Undercover journalists also confirmed Iranian-backed money-laundry
and drug-trafficking cartels that are used to back Islamist networks
and training camps in Venezuela and elsewhere, which exist to attack
U.S. interests and undermine the U.S. in Latin America.
Univision said in press release that it had “dozens of hours of secret
recordings, conducted extensive interviews with people who
participated in the meetings, including a former Iranian ambassador,
and examined documents ranging from hand-written notes to internal
federal reports and obtained unpublished video of a failed bomb attack
against New York’s JFK airport. In Mexico, Univision, uncovered covert
recordings of the alleged Iranian plan to cripple the computer systems
of the White House, the FBI, the CIA and several nuclear power
plants.”
Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has failed to confront threats
like those that Iran poses to the United States. In August, The
Heritage Foundation Counterterrorism Task Force wrote, “The
President’s strategy pays insufficient attention to state-sponsored
terrorism, which will increasingly be a major force to be reckoned
with. Iran is one of the most prominent and aggressive state sponsors
of terror and its proteges–both Hamas and Hezbollah–represent
potentially grave threats. In addition, transnational criminal cartels
in Mexico are increasingly taking on the character of terrorist
networks.”
With this latest report from Univision, we are reminded that those
threats need to be identified and investigated, even in our own
hemisphere. And the Obama Administration can no longer stand on the
sidelines as civil liberties and democratic institutions deteriorate
in Latin America, allowing for Iran and other rabid anti-American to
enter, grow, and threaten the United States.
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