In a 386-6 vote, the House of Representatives has called for the US State Department to launch an immediate investigation into Iran’s diplomatic and business interests in central and South America.
The bill was titled the Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act, and was authored by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R – SC), who argues Iran’s business and diplomatic ties are a threat to national security.
Officials have made a big deal of hyping Iran’s diplomatic efforts abroad, with the Pentagon insisting that opening new Iranian embassies in South America is “on par with spreading terrorism across the globe.” In reality much of the interest is in commerce, and keeping business going without sanctions.
$1 million allocated for the report is trivial to the State Department, and with that little money a bureaucracy of that size is unlikely to do much more than issue a report with no real evidence, just enough to keep the fear going and get more resolutions.
Which means the next planed war will start sometimes in the feature in South America…,
Sure, as one fool said, "bring them on."
Just more waste of time and taxpayer money for israel's agenda. Iran is far from South America. There's no direct contact, no business contacts, no exchange of goods. The little club of anti-imperialists is just a lot of talk.
Imagine what a real investigative reporter like Gareth Porter could do with $1 million and a month in Latam.
What the hell?! There is an American "presence", unbidden and unwelcome across the entire globe. But, of course, when the American Imperium believes it owns the world anyone perceived to be horning in on its action is a threat. What's a gangster government to do otherwise?
Iran may well be, though one fails to see how, a threat to US security, given that even a fish farting in the Antarctic, can be regarded by Washington as a threat, but whereas Iran may be a threat to…., US IS actually a threat to the security of all other countries of the globe, including the US itself.
A dangerous country indeed, which reminds one of Cato the Elder.
How can the american taxpayer s`tomach these A++holes.