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subsuelo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 09:55 AM
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Haaretz hit piece: What lurks behind Iran's close relationship with Venezuela?
What lurks behind Iran's close relationship with Venezuela?

The Iranian effort, which has been joined by Venezuela in a joint effort to establish a strong terror base in the region, is especially palpable in countries ruled by anti-American left wing regimes such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia.

In an exclusive report on the Iran-Venezuela cooperation, published by news Website Newsmax, a study conducted by Israel's Foreign Ministry is quoted as saying that 30 Iranian diplomats were dispatched to Nicaragua. A similar number was dispatched to Venezuela and other Latin American countries.

According to the UN sources, Iran is also maintaining contacts with Colombian drug smugglers and local rebel organizations, and using the smuggling routes to transfer light weaponry, ammunition and missiles to its embassies.


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060939.html">Haaretz - read more

"joined by Venezuela ..to establish a strong terror base in the region"

-Are you f--ing KIDDING me??? Haaretz, a supposedly a center-left publication!! W-T-F is going on folks???
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 03:26 PM
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1. The Iran thing was one of the talking points in the last episode of Latin Pulse.
Someone is selling this one. :shrug:
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 07:35 AM
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2. I think this is related to a Rumsfeldian plan for instigating civil war in Zulia,
Venezuela's oil rich state on the Caribbean, adjacent to Colombia. Back in Dec 07, Rumsfeld wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, urging "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America, and seemed awfully interested in those Chavez hostage negotiations with the FARC (at Colombia's request). When the Colombian military then bombed the location of the first two hostages, as they were on route to their freedom, and a bit later the U.S./Colombia blew away the campsite of the chief FARC hostage negotiator, on Ecuador's territory, with 5 to 10 U.S. "smart bombs"--orchestrated out of the U.S. embassy "war room" in Bogota--it began to be obvious that a Rumsfeldian game was afoot, to instigate a war between Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela. Chavez wisely pulled he and Correa (president of Ecuador--who was furious) back from that brink. Next we would have seen fascist uprisings in Zulia and in Ecuador's oil rich northern region, declaring their "independence" and claiming to be "freedom fighters" trying to secede from 'dictatorial' 'commie' governments. Enter "swift action" by the U.S.--that is, U.S. military "support" for the "freedom fighters."

Chavez, Lula da Silva (Brazil) and others helped foil this plan. Then a similar Bushwhack plan--civil war, fascist insurrection, secession of the gas/oil rich provinces--began to unfold in Bolivia, this last September, funded and organized out of the U.S. embassy. Evo Morales threw the U.S. ambassador (and the DEA) out of Bolivia. South America's new institution, UNASUR (South American 'common market'), strongly backed him up. The plot, which had descended into rioting, murder and mayhem, discredited the Bolivian fascist (and white separatist) cause and disgraced them throughout South America.

Lula da Silva meanwhile proposed that South America create a common defense, in the context of UNASUR, and also stated that the Bushwhack reconstitution of the U.S. 4th Fleet in the Caribbean posed a threat to Brazilian oil reserves on the Atlantic coast. It is obviously a threat to Venezuela (and specifically to Zulia).

Back to Rumsfeld. He resigned from the Defense Dept. in Dec 06. What was he doing writing about "swift action" by the U.S. in South America, in Dec 07?

I think he has a war plan, probably cooked up with Exxon Mobil, Blackwater (active in Colombia), Israeli security forces (active in Colombia), the Colombian military and closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads, his moles with the U.S. military and the local fascist elites in Venezuela's and Ecuador's oil rich states, which can unfold with or without U.S. military support. The earlier plan failed (to draw Ecuador and Venezuela into a war). The Bolivian plan met united resistance in South America, and failed. But that doesn't mean that Rumsfeld and the Dark Lords he works for have given up. And they would, of course, prefer to have U.S. military support, when the time comes.

They are using this propaganda about Iran and the leftist (oil rich) democracies of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia to brainwash the U.S. public that these countries are not just socialist countries where the poor now have some rights, but are a menacing evil and somehow a threat to Israel and the U.S., but perhaps above all to corner the Obama administration into providing U.S. military support for (or at least, turning a blind eye to) a PRIVATE oil war in South America. Their main aim is to set up a fascist mini-state in Zulia, because that would give them control over the Caribbean, and if they can rope in the northern province of Ecuador, all the better. (Not unimportantly, Correa, the president of Ecuador, pledged to boot the U.S. military based out of northern Ecuador this year. This could be a sweetener for the Obama administration--not losing the U.S. base in Ecuador.) Secondary aims, to cause civil disorder in the remaining portions of Venezuela and Ecuador, and mayhem throughout the region (--to "divide and conquer" UNASUR).

Along with private war plans, Rumsfeld likely has a private "Office of Special Plans," which, among other things, cooked up that whole "miracle laptop" thing (supposed laptop--later laptopS--seized from the FARC camp in Ecuador, with contrived emails implicating Chavez and Correa as "terrorist lovers"--i.e., FARC-lovers*). I have little doubt that Rumsfeld's private OSP is cooking up this garbage about Iran dealing in drugs and weapons, and with the FARC, etc. It is psyops. And psypos is a preliminary to war.

And it wouldn't at all surprise me to find out that Rumsfeld's private OSP is responsible for the recent vandalism against a synagogue in Caracas. All part of the same psypops game.

One final thought: Whatever congenital liars like Rumsfeld accuse others of doing, he and his NeoCons are doing. You can predict their crimes with this rule. So, who is running drugs and guns in these countries? Who is spreading "terrorism"? I think Rumsfeld and his allies (including Israeli security forces) are doing precisely what they accuse Iran and these leftist governments of doing. Colombia's narco-state is certainly running Colombia that way--terrorist death squads, big drug operations and weapons trafficking (fed by $6 BILLION in U.S. weapons funding).

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*(Among the more excruciating treacheries played against Chavez was the Bushwhacks' tool, Alvaro Uribe, the narco-fascist president of Colombia, requesting that Chavez negotiate with the FARC, for hostage releases, then later condemning him for evidence in the FARC laptopS that he had contacted them. Rumsfeld was intimately involved in that particular backstabbing, in my opinion. The timing is right (i.e., his WaPo op-ed, in which he states that Chavez's help with hostage releases was "not welcome in Colombia," though it had been days before), and it sure smells like Rumsfeld.)
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 04:50 PM
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3. They never give up. Look at this one claiming Iran is also acquiring Bolivia!
Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2009
Iran's unlikely embrace of Bolivia builds influence in U.S. backyard

By Tyler Bridges | McClatchy Newspapers

ACHACACHI, Bolivia — The government of Iran is following the lead of new ally Venezuela by taking its anti-American message to Bolivia, an impoverished but strategically positioned country in the heart of South America.

A nemesis to U.S. interests in the Middle East for 30 years, Iran is now pouring millions of dollars of aid into Bolivia — including construction of a milk factory in Achacachi. Its real motive, however, is joining Bolivia and Venezuela to counter U.S. interests in Latin America, analysts said.

"Is Iran in Bolivia a nuisance to the United States? Of course it is," said Abbas Milani, the co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. "Iran will try to shore up support for Bolivia's president and help the anti-American message of its regime. And being in Bolivia will give Iran more pawns to play in its dealings with the Europeans and the United States."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a constant U.S. critic, brought Iran and Bolivia together, even though the two countries have little in common but natural gas, large stretches of desert and official antipathy toward the U.S. His government flew Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Bolivian President Evo Morales in September 2007. Morales traveled to Iran a year later.

More:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/61600.html

Apparently the only nations allowed to conduct business with others have to go through the U.S. first! I expect the world to notify the Giant Child, in time, that it has grown tired of indulging its jealous, violent acquisitiveness and tantrums, since dawning self-awareness doesn't seem likely.
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