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Today the United Nations is reporting that Iran — a state sponsor of terrorism — has been working with North Korea on ballistic missile technology (and who knows what else) with shipments taking place through China.  Now, either China is chronically inept at securing and inspecting large shipments passing through its borders, or they are willingly ignorant about what is taking place in their own back yard.  All of this, of course, while Iran laughs at the West and forges ahead with its nuclear program (aided by Russia and possibly others), repeatedly boasts about the ‘attainable’ vision of a world without Israel and America, and continues to prophetize about the soon coming of the ‘divinely appointed Islamic savior’ of mankind that will force the world into Islamic submission.  And now Iran is building rocket bases in Venezuela to be used against its enemies?  Where next, Cuba?  Seems to me like the Iranians are doing as much as they can now, and as fast as they can, while the Office of the Presidency and American leadership is still controlled by eunuchs those who continue to believe that diplomacy is the answer …

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL – “BERLIN – The Iranian government is moving forward with the construction of rocket launch bases in Venezuela, the German daily Die Welt wrote in its Friday edition.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally.

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February. Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from ‘Western security insiders.’

… According to Die Welt, the clandestine agreement between Venezuela and Iran would mean the Chavez government would fire rocket at Iran’s enemies should the Islamic Republic face military strikes.” Read more.

Ahmadinejad Envisions ‘A World Without America’ – “The country that is probably the most dangerous current sponsor of terrorism–Iran—is also pursuing a nuclear capacity, and may well harbor an intention to use it against both the US and Israel. Iranian President Ahmadinejad envisions ‘a world without America.’ … Iran could launch rockets to detonate a nuclear warhead some 70 miles above the earth’s surface. This would create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)… [which] could effectively shut down wide swaths of the US economy. Millions would perish in a short period.”  Read more.

Iran, North Korea Partnering on Ballistic Missiles, U.N. Says – “Iran and North Korea seem to routinely be swapping ballistic missile equipment in breach of U.N. Security Council directives, a classified expert report to the international body stated on Friday. Illegal trades of missile technology had ‘transshipment through a neighboring third country,’ the report states. Multiple envoys told Reuters the nation in question is China.” Read more.

Iran trains terrorists in Venezuela, hides behind mercenaries – “Al-Seyassah has published reports about Iranian training camps on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, where Shiites from the Arab world are taught to make bombs, carry out assassinations, kidnap people and transport hostages to other locations. These training camps are run by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in cooperation with Hezbollah and Hamas.” Read more.