tomder55
Sep 15, 2009, 10:18 AM
NY Attorney General Robert Morgethau is no right winger . He is a liberal who among other things spoke out in favor of the nomination of Sonya Sotomayor's appointment to SCOTUS .
But he knows about the growing ties between Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and the homical delusional mullocracy running Iran ,with their puppet President the Mahdi-hatter .
The leaders had said on Saturday that they plan to stand up against "imperialist" foes -- a reference to the United States and other nations opposing Iran's nuclear program -- by cooperating on a range of issues, including nuclear power.
"Expansion of Tehran-Caracas relations is necessary given their common interests, friends and foes," Ahmadinejad said after a meeting with Chavez, according to Iran's semiofficial FARS news agency.
Venezuela to export gasoline to Iran - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/07/iran.venezuela.gasoline/index.html?eref=rss_world)
Morgenthau's office has been following the money ,and has been actively pursuing and prosecuting instances of Iraninan money laundering .
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/worldbusiness/10bank.html?_r=1
But his concern goes much deeper than that . He makes it clear in a recent address at the Brooking Institute that he thinks this new cooperation between Venezuela and Iran poses an existential threat to the United States.
In the past year my Office has publicly announced two investigations that highlight the efforts of Iran to procure weapons materials despite U.S. and international economic sanctions designed to prevent Iran from developing long-range missile capacity and nuclear technology for military purposes. Our efforts uncovered a pervasive system of deceitful and fraudulent practices employed by Iranian entities to move money all over the world without detection, including through banks located in the jurisdiction I am responsible for protecting – Manhattan. Why did Iran go to these lengths? I believe the answer is simple: In order to pay for materials necessary to develop nuclear weapons, long-range missiles, and road-side bombs.
I believe the nature of Iran's relationship with Venezuela makes for a more dangerous Iran. The Iranians, calculating and clever in their diplomatic relations, have found the perfect ally in Venezuela. Venezuela has an established financial system that, with Chavez's help, can be exploited to avoid economic sanctions. As well, its geographic location is ideal for building and storing weapons of mass destruction far away from Middle Eastern states threatened by Iran's ambition (Israel) and from the eyes of the international community...
In Venezuela, Ahmadinejad and the hard-line Mullahs have found an ally who has stood by them as they crushed political freedoms and defied world consensus on its nuclear program. Both countries have pledged mutual scientific, technical and financial support. There is little reason to doubt Venezuela's support for Ahmadinejad's most important agenda, the development of a nuclear program and long-range missiles, and the destabilization of the region. For Iran, the lifeblood of their nuclear and weapons programs is the ability to use the international banking system to make payments for banned missile and nuclear materials. The opening of Venezuela's banks to the Iranians guarantees the continued development of nuclear technology and long-range missiles. The mysterious manufacturing plants, controlled by Iran, deep in the interior of Venezuela, give even greater concern.
III. With Iranian assistance Venezuela is bound to become a destabilizing force in Latin America
So why is Chavez willing to open up his country to a foreign nation with little in shared history or culture? I believe it is because his regime is corrupt, hell-bent on becoming a regional power, and fanatical in its approach to dealing with the U.S. The diplomatic overture of President Obama in shaking Chavez's hand in April at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago is not a reason to assume a diminished threat from our neighbor to the south. In fact, with the groundwork laid years ago, we are entering a period where the fruits of the Iran-Venezuela bond will begin to ripen.
That means two of the world's most dangerous regimes, the self-described “axis of unity,” will be acting together in our backyard on the development of nuclear and missile technology. And it seems that for terrorist groups they have found the perfect operating ground for training and planning, and financing their activities through narco-trafficking.
Sound like the making of a story you've heard before? In 1962, President Kennedy stared down a nuclear threat to the United States when a leftist populist leader with a strong anti-American streak joined forces with the Soviet Union to bring nuclear weapons in proximity to our borders. JFK ended the Cuban missile crisis through resolve and tough diplomacy. Although the same threat level does not yet exist in Venezuela, the United States needs to be focused on Iran's expansionism wherever it occurs. read the whole address here :
New York County District Attorney's Office (http://manhattanda.org/whatsnew/inthenews/2009-09-08.shtml)
What he doesn't mention is that we were within minutes of WWIII in1962... that ,and the fact that Barack Obama is no Jack Kennedy
But he knows about the growing ties between Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and the homical delusional mullocracy running Iran ,with their puppet President the Mahdi-hatter .
The leaders had said on Saturday that they plan to stand up against "imperialist" foes -- a reference to the United States and other nations opposing Iran's nuclear program -- by cooperating on a range of issues, including nuclear power.
"Expansion of Tehran-Caracas relations is necessary given their common interests, friends and foes," Ahmadinejad said after a meeting with Chavez, according to Iran's semiofficial FARS news agency.
Venezuela to export gasoline to Iran - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/07/iran.venezuela.gasoline/index.html?eref=rss_world)
Morgenthau's office has been following the money ,and has been actively pursuing and prosecuting instances of Iraninan money laundering .
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/worldbusiness/10bank.html?_r=1
But his concern goes much deeper than that . He makes it clear in a recent address at the Brooking Institute that he thinks this new cooperation between Venezuela and Iran poses an existential threat to the United States.
In the past year my Office has publicly announced two investigations that highlight the efforts of Iran to procure weapons materials despite U.S. and international economic sanctions designed to prevent Iran from developing long-range missile capacity and nuclear technology for military purposes. Our efforts uncovered a pervasive system of deceitful and fraudulent practices employed by Iranian entities to move money all over the world without detection, including through banks located in the jurisdiction I am responsible for protecting – Manhattan. Why did Iran go to these lengths? I believe the answer is simple: In order to pay for materials necessary to develop nuclear weapons, long-range missiles, and road-side bombs.
I believe the nature of Iran's relationship with Venezuela makes for a more dangerous Iran. The Iranians, calculating and clever in their diplomatic relations, have found the perfect ally in Venezuela. Venezuela has an established financial system that, with Chavez's help, can be exploited to avoid economic sanctions. As well, its geographic location is ideal for building and storing weapons of mass destruction far away from Middle Eastern states threatened by Iran's ambition (Israel) and from the eyes of the international community...
In Venezuela, Ahmadinejad and the hard-line Mullahs have found an ally who has stood by them as they crushed political freedoms and defied world consensus on its nuclear program. Both countries have pledged mutual scientific, technical and financial support. There is little reason to doubt Venezuela's support for Ahmadinejad's most important agenda, the development of a nuclear program and long-range missiles, and the destabilization of the region. For Iran, the lifeblood of their nuclear and weapons programs is the ability to use the international banking system to make payments for banned missile and nuclear materials. The opening of Venezuela's banks to the Iranians guarantees the continued development of nuclear technology and long-range missiles. The mysterious manufacturing plants, controlled by Iran, deep in the interior of Venezuela, give even greater concern.
III. With Iranian assistance Venezuela is bound to become a destabilizing force in Latin America
So why is Chavez willing to open up his country to a foreign nation with little in shared history or culture? I believe it is because his regime is corrupt, hell-bent on becoming a regional power, and fanatical in its approach to dealing with the U.S. The diplomatic overture of President Obama in shaking Chavez's hand in April at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago is not a reason to assume a diminished threat from our neighbor to the south. In fact, with the groundwork laid years ago, we are entering a period where the fruits of the Iran-Venezuela bond will begin to ripen.
That means two of the world's most dangerous regimes, the self-described “axis of unity,” will be acting together in our backyard on the development of nuclear and missile technology. And it seems that for terrorist groups they have found the perfect operating ground for training and planning, and financing their activities through narco-trafficking.
Sound like the making of a story you've heard before? In 1962, President Kennedy stared down a nuclear threat to the United States when a leftist populist leader with a strong anti-American streak joined forces with the Soviet Union to bring nuclear weapons in proximity to our borders. JFK ended the Cuban missile crisis through resolve and tough diplomacy. Although the same threat level does not yet exist in Venezuela, the United States needs to be focused on Iran's expansionism wherever it occurs. read the whole address here :
New York County District Attorney's Office (http://manhattanda.org/whatsnew/inthenews/2009-09-08.shtml)
What he doesn't mention is that we were within minutes of WWIII in1962... that ,and the fact that Barack Obama is no Jack Kennedy