Nach diesem Bericht in der New York Sun haben sich die Iraner einen strategischen Stuetzpunkt fuer Attentate in den USA geschaffen:
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Until recently, one local boxer’s fortune was about the only story preoccupying the 300-odd Creole of Monkey Point. But perspectives broadened suddenly in March when Iranians and Venezuelans showed up aboard Nicaraguan military helicopters. They had come to scope out Monkey Point’s bay for transformation to a $350 million deep-water shipping port. The port idea is part a new diplomatic relationship between Iran and the Sandinista revolutionary president, Daniel Ortega, that has flown largely under American press and broadcast radar since its August announcement. Iran has since issued fantastic promises that would include financing a rail, road, and pipeline “dry canal” from Monkey Point to an upgraded Port of Corinto on the Pacific, hydroelectric projects, and 10,000 houses in between.
With its latest diplomatic partnership with a time-tested American nemesis, Iran is now just a few porous borders away from President Bush’s home state of Texas. All this matters because of fears the Islamic Republic can now project a threat close to America’s borders and Mexico’s petroleum infrastructure in the event of severe enough sanctions or even war.
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