Could Iran and Hezbollah really strike in Latin America?

The Trump administration, for example, has proposed that Israel provide military training to Latin American nations to help them fight Hezbollah, which several countries have said they would accept.

Fears about Hezbollah are grounded in history. With backing from Iran, the group is widely believed to have carried out two deadly bombings in Argentina in the 1990s that targeted a Jewish community centre and Israeli embassy. The attacks killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds more. "Hezbollah continues to have our hemisphere squarely in its sights today," Nathan Sales, a top State Department official, told a gathering of the American Jewish Committee last month.He pointed to Assad Ahmad Barakat, whom the US alleges is a Hezbollah financier and who currently faces criminal charges in Paraguay, and Mohammed Hamdar, an alleged Hezbollah member who was arrested in 2014 and is on trial in Peru on terrorism charges.

I'm Brazilian, I was in Brazil when Bolsonaro was stabbed and I haven't seen anyone or any media channels saying it was a Hezbollah attack? This is completely nonsense

for carrying it out. Their indictment stated that the decision to approve the boming was ultimately made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.” 2/2

Why not they’ve done it before.... 1994 at Associacion Mutual Israelites Argentina. 85 killed, 100s injured. “In October 2006 prosecutor Marcelo Martínez Burgos formally accused top officials within the government of Iran with orchestrating the bombing and Hezbollah 1/2

They'll get raped.

Umm, why would they?

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