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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The Mexicans fielded an Iranian proposal to expand ties in the “political, economic, and cultural arenas,”
I have had enough of our “friends” in Mexico. Besides this they encourage their people to come here illegally so we have to support them. I say we put the troops on the border and show them who has the power.
“I say we put the troops on the border...”
Troops on the border sounds good to me.
Can we both take this further?
Also end Muslim immigration.
End Mosque Construction.
Drill for our own oil.
Build nuclear power plants like the French have, where they get almost 80% of their electricity from.
STOP increasing foreign aid and start cutting it and start worrying about ourselves.
I’ve mentioned for a few years now how Islamic radicals are easily hidden in smuggled groups and have refuge in our country’s network of mosques and Islamic-dominated neighborhoods. Discarded Korans and prayer rugs found by the Border Patrol is passe’, yet purposely unreported except when a citizen finds them before an agent.
On the good side most of these infiltrators quickly succumb to the riches America provides compared to their homelands. Our “decadent lifestyle” and focus on materialism actually disarms and defuses most of these human bombs. The former jihadi at the tobacco store had a better line on NASCAR odds than I did. He was assimilated. We assimilate them like the Borg through our culture faster and more thoroughly than any government program could.
We only need to worry about the few who don’t move out of the enclaves.
What that actually means is that the Iranians use Mexico to buy American products and/or American products made in Mexico. Beyond carpets and caviar, there isn't much Iran has to export to Mexico.
ditto other cess-nations like North Korea.
bttt
Ge3t a grip. Iran is a small country, there’s no need to worry about them. < /sarcasm >
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Exclusive: "HEZBOLLAH USES MEXICAN DRUG ROUTES INTO U.S. Works beside smuggler cartels to fund operations" by Sara A Carter (SNIPPET: "Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.") (March 27, 2009) (Read More...)
DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "IRANIAN INFLUENCE, TERRORIST LINKS, THREATEN LATIN AMERICAN SECURITY" by Donna Miles (SNIPPET: "Iran is increasing its presence in Latin America, and Hezbollah, a terrorist organization it sponsors, is making inroads in drug trafficking in Colombia, the commander of U.S. Southern Command told Congress today.") (March 17, 2009)
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