Iran and our lax border
For many years, Iran has had an operational alliance with the Marxist totalitarian regime in Venezuela. This gives Iran a toehold in the West and a well-trod route to infiltrate operatives across the southern border. Biden has appeared blithely indifferent to this — which is no surprise when we remember the debacle last fall: Biden agreed to a “prisoner exchange” in connection with the $6 billion ransom that he paid Iran for the release of American hostages. Then it turned out that most of the Iranian prisoners, who had been or were being prosecuted by the Justice Department for clandestine activities on behalf of Tehran, were “U.S. persons” who got to stay in the United States rather than being returned to Iran.
Biden is facilitating illegal immigration from Venezuela (among other South and Central American countries) through a lawless visa scheme. In a post earlier today, I drew on a report by Andrew Arthur (of the Center for Immigration Studies) about the staggering number of illegal immigrants (371,000) who entered the country last month. Arthur relates that, despite the fact that Biden reserves for Venezuela a healthy share of the annual (illegal) parole grants from his CHNV program (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela), tens of thousands of additional aliens from those countries are showing up illegally every month. Last month, of 61,500 such illegal aliens, 47,000 were from Venezuela. That’s bad . . . but not as bad as the 51,833 from Venezuela in September.
The mind reels. Does any rational person think Iran is not capitalizing on this scheme?
Well, I suppose there are some people who are rational and approve, either because they favor Iran or hate the US or both.
The more important question, I think, is whether anyone in the Biden administration (or the Obama administration) is rational. In other words, are they all fools or are they all knaves? I think there is a combination of the two, but the latter outnumber the former. However, they work synergistically.
McCarthy continues:
… [W]hat Biden officials will never tell you is that, because the president has failed in his most basic duty to secure America’s borders, the administration has no idea how many Iranian operatives may be in the country — how many Iranian jihadist cells could be activated if our military responds forcefully to Sunday’s drone attack in Jordan, by which Iran killed three of our troops and wounded at least 34 others.
Or even if our military doesn’t respond forcefully.
Iran means business when it calls the US “The Great Satan” and yells “Death to America!”
Here’s another recommended video, about Iran’s aspirations:
One possible Black Swan event that may happen this year is an Iranian funded terrorist attack on US soil conducted by individuals who crossed the unsecured border. I imagine the Biden Regime is probably at least a little worried about this since such an event may negatively effect his reelection chances, but evidently not yet worried enough to actually lock down the border.
Caroline Glick show minutes ago: https://youtu.be/kFspUWn_GVo?si=eEpoXE_yIUGa1EeL
The West does not want to survive. The politicians vie for power and money increasingly in your face, while the public is oblivious, don’t care or want a piece of the action. I think an October 7th occurrence in the US is very possible.
sdferr:
Caroline Click at 10:30 makes the Iran Hamas connection and the “hostage deal” being pushed onto Israel by Brandon and the other anti-Semites; that Iran (IMO) has Brandon by the balls. Force Israel to accepting a defeat or they and their proxies will strike again. Brandonites already hate Israel and are afraid of Iran (or are Iranophiles).
Brandon f*cks up everything he touches. Kirby and Blinken are no better. Elites.
Nonapod –
Given what I’ve seen thus far, I fully expect that if a successful attack takes place, “obstructionist Republicans in Congress” will be blamed for not passing the “bipartisan border compromise bill”. The false claim is currently being made that without that bill, nothing further can be done to police the border.
Also, such an attack will be viewed as one of Rahm Emmanuel’s “crises”, and an attempt will be made to not let it go to waste.
Thus, the possibility of such an attack may very well be seen as an opportunity by certain members of the administration.
Biden is lying about his ability to close the border. That is now the law, which he is ignoring.
The plot of “The Attack”, Kurt Schlicter’s new book is that Iran is behind it.
Biden and the Dems love cash and more illegal alien voters more than they love their country.
It’s that simple.
This administration ( Barky’s 3.0) has been in bed with Iran since Barky 1.0 administration. Shipping cash to them, no reprisal by their or puppets from attacks.
And they have to be getting operatives for intelligence or terrorism preparation.
Nonapod… I don’t think the Biden regime is worried in the least about an attack on US soil…by Iranians or anyone else (except maybe people who are sick of him) It’d be the perfect excuse in an election year (cough Covid cough) to change the rules & framework for a Presidential election & facilitate another steal.
Aren’t the Iranians considered a Russian client state?
Here is where Trump’s instincts, if not his execution were on point. If our relations with Russia were not in a deep freeze, Putin might have been inclined to keep his Iranian client on a much shorter leash. But since Biden decided it was more fun to antagonize him, Putin doesn’t give a rat’s ass and can’t be co-opted.
Yes, Obama had many Iranophiles in his administration. Most of Biden’s admin are Obama retreads.
The open border is an arrogant big FU to the American people. (78% of people polled by CBS rate the border problem as serious -18%, very serious – 30%, and a crisis – 40%.) That’s a CBS poll. They’re trying to cover up the border problem and not succeeding.
IMO, Biden should have been impeached a year or more ago for failure to do his duty of protecting our borders. They’re trying to impeach Mayorkas now. They should raise their sights and go after Biden.
This is not incompetence, it’s a plan to “fundamentally transform” the country. If the MSM weren’t trying so hard to ignore this issue, the LIVs would be more upset than they are. The GOP needs to keep the pressure on.
no thats not entirely accurate, iran and Russia have been at odds for a long time, Azerbaijan was one of their leading client states, the Ayatollah though they were one of the Great Satans, because of their atheism, now they are more like polytheists or mushrikun, that is the Arab word for contrary faith, there is sentiment among some thinkers like Alexander Dugin, whose father was GRU, that one can leverage the Sepahs (revolutionary guards) resources against the West, however Dugin is more of Anarchist spirit, something akin to Rasputin,
there are so many possible angles to this with this human maelstrom the progs have let loose on this country, (in concert with the possums like mcconnell and lankford )like this azeri felllow samedov who was apparently released after 12 years ago, and found his way to this country, Chinese Arabian Indonesian,
Does anyone really doubt that there are going to be widespread terrorist attacks across the United States within the next year? Predictably, there would be a huge outcry from the public and in an election year, Congress would certainly support that outcry. There would be a ‘bipartisan’ demand that the Biden administration act decisively. In response, what would the Federal Government’s predictable response to terrorist attacks across the nation be? In those circumstances, how could anyone persuasively argue that the Biden administration declaring nationwide martial law was unjustified? And if the attacks start up a few months before the election, well… it won’t be safe to hold an election and it will have to be ‘temporarily’ cancelled.
But only for the duration of the national ’emergency’…
Ann Coulter writes that illegal aliens have killed 150 Americans in January.
How the heck does Rahm Emanuel fit into this?
It appears that there is no one from TX at the border of Eagle Pass–what happened to the big stand off?
If China has Biden by the short and curlies; and if Iran needs, let’s say, “something” from “Biden” (oh, say, pressure on Israel for…whatever); then might China put the screws on “Biden” on behalf of its Mullah pals…?
But that’s a bit (or more than a bit) fanciful.
Much more likely is that “Biden” is on the same page as “HIS” Mullah pals, which all the bluster between them is meant to disguise and conceal…similar to all the bluster between “Biden” and his pal,…..PUTIN.
@Sgt. Joe Friday
No. They are Russian allies or at least “colleagues” and “business partners” but Iran is its own actor, and has its own ambitions that well exceed what Moscow can control and if anything predate it.
You’re giving the ability or inclination of Russia to control Iran way too much credit. You’re also ignoring that Biden is quite fine co-opting Putin to work on Iran… in order to come up with a new version of the Iran “Deal.”
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-admin-relies-on-russia-to-finalize-iran-nuclear-deal-as-putin-invades-ukraine/
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202202285698
As for “antagonizing Putin” or “Putin keeping Iran on a leash”, Trump did not go out of his way to antagonize Putin but he did do several things that greatly undermined the bear (such as fossil fuel policy) and he responded to Russian provocations like he responded to those of others, by inflicting a mixture of negotiation and pain mixed with theater. This is much wiser than we think and why attempts to portray him as a Russian puppet were stupid and dishonest, but it also is why his relations with Putin diminished over his first term, precisely because he would not let himself be walked over. Ditto with Iran.
Meanwhile there are varying levels of cooperation and conflict and even co-dependence between Russia and Iran but neither very clearly has the upper hand over the other or the ability to call shots. So they will work together when they see reason to (and their shared alignment with much of the “resistance bloc” means they will do that a lot) but they will also work at cross purposes when they see a reason. But the ability of either side to give orders to the other and say “STOP” is not really there.
Russia’s not the Soviet Union any more and even the Soviets found it somewhat difficult to deal with allies or client states of Iran’s size, power, and prestige (as shown by their issues with Ceaucescu in Romania and even East Germany and Poland, to say nothing of those further afield).
“How the heck does Rahm Emanuel fit into this?”
He’s the one who famously said, *Never let a crisis go to waste.”. i.e. if there were to be a terrorist attack on American soil, the administration would likely view it as an opportunity to push some new measure on the country.
“Aren’t the Iranians considered a Russian client state?”
I think it would be more accurate to say that they have a common ally in Syria.
it is said that the ayatollah khamenei, was trained at patrice lumumba university, I haven’t found any confirmation about it, Russia and Persia, have been at odds for a long time, longer than say their rivalry with the UK, they contested the Caspian sea, as Turkey did the lands of Circassia and Ukraine
in the Black Sea,
Well, large numbers of your fellow citizens think that your survival at least, is “problematic” or outright undesireable. And they have been directing their political energies for decades now at solving the problem of your continuing existence by cutting away the foundations of your life … and doing so on your taxpayer dime.
Nonetheless, once the catastrophy does occur, plenty of sensitive conservatives will fall all over themselves for the chance to leap into the breach and sacrifice for those who were mere months before trying to destroy them.
They will celebrate the “fact” that their lefty retired schoolmarm aunt Jane, and Democrat political operative neighbor Jim, local race hustler Tariq, and corrupt pol Joe have ” come to their senses”, and that “we are now all in this together”.
But of course fear does not really erase crazy and corrupt in the case of the left; and like the proverbial dog they will return to their resentment driven vomit and lashing out once the immediate threat has passed. The sensitive conservative knows it.
It’s just that his own fears make delusional living more comfortable for him. And then there may be that other “benefit”.
The 2023 movie “The Killer” has a climactic scene in which a character recites an old joke about a repeatedly bumbling hunter and his prey, a large bear.
The insight into the ways of the sensitive conservative provided by the old joke, is that it provides an alternative take on the old saw that ‘crazy is engaging in the same futile behavior again and again and expecting a different outcome’.
Instead circumstances might not be what they at first seem to be, at all.
Iranian sponsored terrorist group Hezbollah has been operating out of the South American ‘Triple Frontier’ Tri-Border region of Argentina, Brazil & Paraguay for decades, conducting terrorist operations/bombings since 1992.
Iranian sponsored but (in part) US funded!
(How’s that for diversity?!)
Let’s say one one-hundredth of one percent of the illegal immigrants who’ve crossed our border are intent on and trained to do terrorist things, possibly coordinated or at least simultaneously. With categories of targets calculated to really spook the government.
Of ten million illegals, that’s one thousand trained terrorists.
Anybody think I need to knock off one more zero? Okay. That’s one hundred guys of ten million illegals.
With two or three guys per event, that’s three dozen catastrophes happening in one week if not one day.
And do what? Stored energy is easily available. See McVeigh “And Others Unknown”. Or hijack a gasoline tanker.
And so we tell our gullible relations, “You voted for that.” Not much satisfaction.
Operation cassandra was shut down to stop a drug pipeline that flowed from venezuela through west africa into europe