Thanks to a special emailer for this link:
BLOG:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/iran-setting-up-shop-south-of-the-border/
“Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border”
SNIPPET: “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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SNIPPET: “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.””
Video from link no. 7:
http://www.pjtv.com/video/National_Security_Review/Iran%27s_Push_Into_Nicaragua/1595/
“Iran’s Push Into Nicaragua”
(Added March 26, 2009)
ADDING a thread link to post no. 7:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2216502/posts
“Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border”
PAJAMAS MEDIA ^ | March 27, 2009 | by Todd Bensman
Posted on March 27, 2009 4:28:30 PM PDT by Cind