Itongadol/AJN.- Defense Minister says Iranians have built a terror infrastructure in South America, designed to target Jews, Israelis; warns that Tehran\’s ambitions for hegemony in the world make it doubly important to prevent a nuclear Iran.
Itongadol.- Defense Minister Moshe Ya\’alon warned Monday that every Iranian embassy throughout the world also serves as a base for gathering intelligence and planning terror activities.
Speaking during a meeting with visiting Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, Ya\’alon said that Israel was "following with concern all of Iran\’s activities in the world, because we have been hit by their terror in Argentina, Bulgaria and India."
Ya\’alon accused the Iranians of using the diplomatic mail service to transfer bombs and weapons. He said that Israel knows of Iranian terror bases in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia, both at their embassies and among the local Muslim Shi\’ite populations.
"They have built this infrastructure for potential attacks against Jews, Israelis and Israeli interests, but it is also important to them as an infrastructure for possible action in the United States, the defense minister said.
Ya\’alon charged the Iranians with using drug smuggling channels to smuggle weapons into the United States, citing the planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador to Washington two years ago.
"This all points to the intentions of the Iranian regime. The terror infrastructure they are building throughout the world is giving them ambition for their goal to export their Shi\’ite revolution to the entire world," Ya\’alon said.