Brazil, Iran, and Islamist Terrorism
"Official
investigations carried out by Argentine, American, and Brazilian
authorities have revealed how Brazil figures into the intricate network
set up to 'export Iran's Islamic Revolution' to the West,
by both establishing legitimacy and regional support while
simultaneously organizing and planning terrorist attacks."
"Despite the fact that Brazil has never been the target of one of
these terrorist attacks, the country plays the role of a safe haven for
Islamic extremist groups, as explained below."
"[Alberto Nisman's 502-page dictum on the 1994 Buenos
Aires terrorist attack] not only describes the operations of the network
responsible for this terrorist attack, it also names those who carried
it out. Consequently, the document lists twelve people in Brazil with
ties to [Iran's Lebanese proxy] Hezbollah, who reside or resided in
Brazil. Seven of these operatives had either direct or indirect
participation in the AMIA bombing."
Brazilian investigative journalist Leonardo Coutinho
"When
he talks [Qassem Suleimani, head, Iranian Revolutionary Guards foreign
arm: 'We are witnessing the export of the Islamic Revolution throughout
the [Middle East] region. From Bahrain and Iraq to Syria, Yemen and
North Africa.'] about exporting the Islamic Revolution, Suleimani is
referring to a very specific template."
"It's the template that the Khomeinist revolutionaries
first set up in Lebanon 36 years ago by cloning the various instruments
that were burgeoning in Iran as the Islamic revolutionary regime
consolidated its power."
Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
REUTERS/Mariana Bazo Hugo Chavez, right, with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at Miraflores Palace in Caracas in 2008.
Even
while a top government official in Buenos Aires accused the murdered
Alberto Nisman -- the Argentinian prosecutor who the day following his
murder was preparing to present his findings on the Iranian involvement
in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre that killed 85 people
and injured many others in Buenos Aires, and the complicity of the
government of President Cristina Fernandez in shielding Iran -- of
taking illegal kickbacks of state money, the full scope of Iran's plans
to extend its Islamist hegemony worldwide is being revealed.
Wikipedia Remains of the AMIA after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Reports
now implicate the late Hugo Chavez in providing Iranian and Hezbollah
agents with passports and travel documents to enable them to move freely
around Latin America in pursuit of Iranian plans to infiltrate and
fundraise, and take over drug cartels in remote, lawless areas of
Brazil, Peru, Venezuela where legal and economic infrastructure and
resources are lacking to fend off the Iranian agents' agenda.
Peru's
former vice interior minister speaking before the U.S. House Committee
on Foreign Affairs explained the infiltration in his own country: "Iran and Hezbollah, two forces hostile to U.S. interests, have made
significant inroads in Peru, almost without detection, in part because
of our weak institutions, prevalent criminal enterprise, and various
stateless areas.These elements are
particularly weak in the southern mountainous region of my country."
President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has constantly repudiated any suggestion
that she or her government were involved in helping Iran to evade
charges of direct involvement in the bombing in exchange for
preferential energy entitlements for Argentina. Her repeated accusations
against the murdered prosecutor and sly innuendos attacking his
reputation have made her deeply unpopular in her country.
Her
chief of cabinet, Anibal Fernandez, claimed funds dedicated to the
prosecutor's investigation into the community centre bombing were
misused and appropriated for personal gain by Alberto Nisman. The
president and other government officials suggest that the man who had
given Mr. Nisman a gun for protection, Diego Lagomarsino, Mr. Nisman's
friend and aide, was involved in his death. A suspicion that the lead
investigator in the case denies.
Judge
Sandro Arroyo Salgado, formerly married to Mr. Nisman, is convinced her
former husband was shot by someone standing behind him as he faced the
bathtub of his apartment bathroom. She had hired independent
investigators to conduct an unbiased and expert investigation into the
murder of the prosecutor. And she rejects all of the accusations
levelled against her husband and the attempted cover-up of his murder,
labelling it suicide.
According to
The New York Times, conversations intercepted between Argentine and Iranian officials
"point to a long pattern of secret negotiations to reach a deal in which
Argentina would receive oil in exchange for shielding Iranian
officials" from direct implications in the bombing. Those conversation transcripts betray
"a
concerted effort by representatives of President Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner's government to shift suspicions away from Iran in order to
gain access to Iranian markets and to ease Argentina's energy troubles."
The
Brazilian investigative journalist Mr. Couthino, has revealed his
findings in interviewing three officials who defected from the regime of
Hugh Chavez who stated they had been present during a conversation
between Mr. Chavez and the-then President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
in January of 2007. Their account was the revelation of a plan to coerce
Argentina into sharing nuclear technology with Iran, and halting the
hunt for the AMIA bombing perpetrators in exchange for a cash infusion
to finance Ms. Fernandez's political plans.
Alberto
Nisman knew he was a doomed man, that it was only a matter of time. The
ploy of having security personnel looking out on his behalf who, on the
evening he died appear to have melted away, does not appear to have
reassured him that he was in any degree safe from those wishing him
dead. But he was determined regardless to unleash his findings and his
accusations implicating the government in a coverup to exonerate the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
With
whose nuclear technology and diplomatic agents the United States is
even now proposing to reach an agreement that will in too short a time,
enable Iran to become a nuclear power in the Middle East, and reaching
beyond the Middle East to its covert contacts in Latin America and North
Korea on its way to becoming a 'world power', and achieving the Islamic
Republic's fondest aspirations, our wildest nightmare.
Labels: Argentina, Iran, Islamism, Nuclear Technology, Terrorism, Threats
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