Posted on 03/27/2009 4:28:30 PM PDT by Cindy
Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border
Obama's overtures to Tehran have given Mexico the green light to start cozying up with the mullahs. (Watch an interview with Todd Bensman here.)
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It is often said in matters of love and real estate that timing is everything. Now, strange though the application may seem, the same cliche can be said about Iran’s steady march north through Latin America right up to the U.S. southern border.
While America’s political and diplomatic glitterati are riveted on Mexico’s civil drug war — and Mexico is appropriately busy managing its biggest existential peril since Pancho Villa — the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to slip into the country before anyone really notices.
Late last month, the mullahs sent emissaries to Mexico City to pitch vastly expanded trade ties of the sort that, at least in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, have given national security establishment types the hives.
According to a February 27 press release put out by Mexico’s department of foreign relations, Secretary Maria Lourdes Aranda Bezaury met with Tehran’s deputy foreign minister for the Americas, Ali Reza Salari. The Mexicans fielded an Iranian proposal to expand ties in the “political, economic, and cultural arenas,” the release stated.
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Unfortunately, Iran has been a trading partner of Mexico for some time.
"But since relations with Iran about its nukes also are sky high on Obama’s foreign policy agenda, I thought the Iranian overture to Mexico City was worth at least a few reportorial phone calls. It turns out once again, as with my coverage of Iran’s move into Nicaragua, that I remain the only U.S. reporter to inquire. Here’s what I learned:"
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Yes.
Maybe all us Freepers should just “convert” to Islam and destroy the mosques from within?
Iran has been trying to hobnob its way into this hemisphere for some time. However, it keeps running into the same basic problem that the fanatical fruitcakes who rule Iran don’t get along with other flavors of fanatical fruitcake of South and central America.
It was positively comical when Iran invited some old fashioned South American communists to Tehran to talk about their mutual desire to destroy the Yankee menace. They even had some kin of Che Guevara, who didn’t even make it through their opening remarks before the Iranians asked them to leave. Now.
After talking about how “after the revolution”, the opiate of the masses, religion, will be purged from society. For some reason, the Mullahs weren’t too cool with that.
As far as Mexico goes, while they might not be the strictest Catholics in the big cities, in the countryside they even get into spats with the Protestants. Add to that the growing Santa Muerte cult, which is an Aztec throwback, and I just don’t think there’s a heck of a lot of room for Islam to make a big splash.
And while Iranians might be willing to pay a pretty penny to get smuggled into the US, even a small bounty, payable to Mexicans, would guarantee that while they made it across the border, they wouldn’t get much further than that, without ICE being on them like flies on a variety of feces.
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Thanks for the feedback yefragetuwrabrumuy. I agree that their is a culture difference, but I have also noted since 9/11 they are working to break the barriers.
"I also emailed Mexico’s ambassador to Iran, Carlos Tirado, multiple times, asking to take Mexico’s temperature on the Iranian proposal. No response. Finally, a Mexican diplomat who requested anonymity called back, probably just to shut me up.
"The diplomat said Mexico welcomed Tehran’s proposal with open arms and considered it no different from any other. The diplomat explained that this was the new way of the world since the Obama administration has shown open-mindedness about Iran."
All That’s Missing is Chia Pet...Ping!
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Here’s the North Korean Embassy in Mexico link.
I’m not making it clickable on purpose.
north-korea.visahq.com/embassy/Mexico/
I’ve long been an advocate for paying a bounty to Mexicans to inform on non-Mexican border crossers. They are a distinct problem from the illegal immigration issue, and bounties are very cost effective. For a few hundred, to a few thousand dollars, no non-Mexican or Hispanic could cross that border without dozens of hungry eyes glaring at him.
Even if he paid them a fortune to smuggle him across, they would sell him out in a second. And with a big payout for a high value target, the border would be sealed tight as a drum, once the word got around.
The best part is that if we don’t catch them, it doesn’t count.
And the border is still not sealed...
Biggest division is alcohol. Mexican loonies drink and do coke and lots of it while Islamic crazies abstain
Obama will open up the borders even wider. Im supried McCain wasnt chose by Obama to head ICE or DHS. The sellout of this country continues.
Thanks for the ping; post; thread. Very interesting. International anti-thruth, anti-freedom collectives are very likely to join forces, but may not have to. Witness the damage domestic enemies are doing.
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