Iran in Latin America

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May

The Kremlin’s Latin American Echo Chamber

A trio of Spanish language media networks controlled by Iran, Russia, and Venezuela push out propaganda and disinformation to demonize the West.

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: April

How Iran is Making Inroads in South America

Al Mustafa International University in Qom caters to converts in their native language. Some of them come home to run for office.

Soleimani U

A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America

Don’t Bury Alberto Nisman Again

Those with the legal duty to seek the truth have done just the opposite. They are seeking to bury Alberto Nisman and his investigation once again.

Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice

If Rezaee travels with impunity, Iran will seek to further push the limits, and legitimize the accused in the same way that it has done with near impunity in the nuclear file.

The new conquistadores

U.S. adversaries are becoming South American hegemons

Chile’s new president is a win for Iran

Last Sunday, Chileans elected Gabriel Boric, a young, former social justice student activist, as president.

Iran’s Quest for Soleimani’s Revenge Goes to Latin America

Shortly after a U.S. strike killed Iran’s most senior general, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020, both Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah swore revenge. Nearly two years later, Iran and Hezbollah...

Florida Businessman Indicted in Nader Mohamad Farhat’s Money Laundering Case

Florida’s Southern District Court in Miami indicted Florida businessman Elias Daher last week on money laundering charges, making him a co-defendant in the Mohamad Nader Farhat money laundering case....

Corrupt Venezuelan Officials Face Impending Extradition to United States

The constitutional court of the African island nation of Cape Verde last week authorized the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab to the United States, while Spanish police arrested former Venezuelan...

U.S. Should Intensify Efforts to Extradite Turkish Money Laundering Suspect

An Austrian court on August 25 tentatively granted Ankara’s request to extradite Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, a Turkish businessman Austrian authorities arrested on June 19 at the request of the U.S. Department...

Coordinated Law Enforcement and Treasury Action Against Money Launderers in the Tri-Border Area

The U.S. and Paraguayan governments took coordinated action yesterday against the money laundering network of Kassem Mohamad Hijazi, a Brazilian citizen of Lebanese descent implicated in government corruption...

Hangman-in-chief

Iranian presidential elections have rarely mattered. Both the past victory of the so-called reformists and now the restoration of a tailor made presidency to consolidate the regime, portray something similar...

The Laundromat: Hezbollah’s Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America

Executive Summary On January 6, 2021, the Gulf news network Al Arabiya published an explosive revelation. In late 2016, a high-placed Hezbollah operative named Nasser Abbas Bahmad came to what is known...