Iran threatens U.S. via LatAm, says diplomat

U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere Thomas Shannon remarked yesterday that Iran is gaining influence in Latin American in order to threaten U.S. security. “It's a way to push back on us” in case the U.S. enters in a conflict with Iran, said Shannon during a conference in Washington.

Shannon brought up the accusations against Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires and also added that:

“…we remind them about the continuing relationships that exist in the region between groups in Latin America and groups that we consider to be terrorist in the Middle East, especially Hezbollah and Hamas.”

In recent years, Iran’s government has strengthened ties with a few Latin American countries including Venezuela and Nicaragua.

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Sources- AFP, Reuters, Americas Society, The Latin Americanist