It Takes A Nuclear Village (Iran & Venezuela)

Forbes ^ | 09.10.09 | Claudia Rosett

[Ooh-Ah]

WASHINGTON -- New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau left his home turf and came to the nation's capital on Tuesday to sound the alarm about a "blossoming relationship" between Iran and Venezuela. Comparing the situation to the lead up to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Morgenthau warned of growing threats--involving missiles, nuclear ventures and terrorist training--that Iran and Venezuela are now cultivating, together, "in our backyard."

"Axis of unity" is the label that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez have themselves chosen for their alliance. The rise of this partnership, according to Morgenthau, dates from Ahmadinejad's election as president of Iran in 2005. At that point, said Morgenthau, what had been relatively routine ties between the two countries "changed dramatically."

Over the past four years, the two despotic rulers have exchanged multiple visits, struck extensive military and business deals between their two countries, supported each other in cultivating policies and practices hostile to the U.S. and introduced each other to like-minded actors in their respective regions of Latin America and the Middle East.

Morgenthau cited reports that Iran has been building and running mysterious factories in parts of Venezuela so remote that they lack such basic amenities as restaurants and grocery stores. He added that since 2006, Iran has been embedding advisers with the Venezuelan military--which has thrown out its old U.S. army field manual and replaced it with instructions in asymmetric warfare as taught to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian-backed terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas.

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...He (Morgenthau) spoke at a lunch at the Brookings Institution, hosted by a think-tank program called Global Financial Integrity, and The American Interest magazine. The full text of his remarks is now posted on his office's Web site.

[OldArmy52]

Don’t worry, Obama already has taken steps to prevent this disaster in the making...

He hasn’t yet?

When will he?

Big Sis says only conservative Republicans are the threat?

Oh well.

[Cindy]

A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

[givemELL]

Much more dangerous than the Nicaragua, Grenada challenges handled so well by Reagan. Now, the US sides with Venezuela against the Constitutional Republic of Honduras as its major initiative in South America at the moment...Hooray for H. Clintons’ wide ranging vision at least equal to the vision of a ‘wise Latino’ woman, and whose first priority in foreign policy for the US State Dept. is ‘reproductive issues’ as announced in a speech at Planned Parenthood in March, 2009. She is protecting us well from dealing with fearsome challenges in a realsitic manner, and we find out about reality elsewhere. By the way, why is she in the State Dept. in the first place...she hates the job and had planned for something else.