Friday, September 6, 2013

Iran is Recruiting Latin American converts to infiltrate the U.S. through our Southern Border

Iran is recruiting an “invisible army” of revolutionary sympathizers in Latin America to infiltrate the U.S. through the “soft belly” of the southern border, U.S. officials and national security experts told The Blaze. And they’re using one website in particular to do it. 
The Iranian regime’s conversion efforts are becoming increasingly aggressive, especially over the Internet, with the goal of conducting operations against United States interests in the Western Hemisphere, according to U.S. government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the nature of their work in the region.
Islamoriente.com, which focuses on religion and politics, is one of Iran’s main recruitment and conversion websites for Latin America on the Internet, TheBlaze has learned. The site, which launched in 2008, includes links to Iranian television for Spanish speakers, anti-American news stories, essays on reasons to convert to Islam, chat rooms and a personal message from the Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. 
Even as President Barack Obama waits for Congress to make a decision on Syria, the Iranian website wastes no time and has no shortage of stories ridiculing the U.S. administration for threatening to strike President Bashar Assad’s regime, a staunch ally of Iran.
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“Historically, Iran has tried to recruit agents from the Lebanese Shi’ite diaspora in South America and West Africa,” Phillips said. ”This emphasis on Hispanic converts is something new.” 
In the past, “U.S. intelligence focused on Iran’s relationship with Hezbollah but now with the people they are recruiting it could be much more difficult to gauge who is infiltrating the U.S.,” Phillips added.
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2 comments:

BOSMAN said...

If this isn't another major reason to seal our borders first, I don't know what else is.

Anonymous said...

This is one of the many reasons we need to be serious about our borders. We've been saying this forever, but the elites in Washington and academia are so smart, they know that this can't happen. Just like the Boston Bombings couldn't happen, right? I mean, Dhokar used to smoke weed with his friends; can't get more American than that. After all, our"brilliant" Pres., according to the press, used to smoke weed, too. Not like that mean old Mitt Romney who doesn't drink or smoke, that's just unAmerican. I mean, he might have enough brain left to make good decisions and be a leader, we can't have that....

AZ