THE NEW AXIS – AT 8:05 P.M. ET:  In World War II the Axis referred to Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and imperial Japan.  Now a new axis is forming, consisting of Iran and its new allies around the world.  There is a strange airline flight coming out of Tehran that symbolizes this new axis:

WASHINGTON - Iran Air 744 is a bimonthly flight that originates in Tehran and flies directly to Caracas with periodic stops in Beirut and Damascus. The maiden flight was Feb. 2, 2007.

The mere existence of the flight was a significant concern for U.S. intelligence officials, but now a broader concern is who and what are aboard the flights.

"If you [a member of the public] tried to book yourself a seat on this flight and it doesn't matter whether it's a week before, a month before, six months before -- you'll never find a place to sit there," says Offer Baruch, a former Israeli Shin Bet agent.

Baruch, now vice president of operations for International Shield, a security firm in Texas, says the plane is reserved for Iranian agents, including "Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and other intelligence personnel."

Current and former U.S. intelligence officials fear the flight is a shadowy way to move people and weapons to locations in Latin America that can be used as staging points for retaliatory attacks against the U.S. or its interests in the event Iranian nuclear sites are struck by U.S. or Israeli military forces.

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In addition to speculation about who is aboard, there are significant concerns that the Boeing 747SP airplane might be transporting uranium to Tehran on the return flight. The U.S. government has enacted strong sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear program and there are worries the flight might provide an opportunity to skirt the embargo against materials that might be used for the program.

The U.S. Government, under Obama, has its usual dynamic reaction:

In a statement, the State Department says, "Nations have the right to enter into cooperative relationships with other nations."

Yeah, okay boss, and people have a right to build a mosque at Ground Zero.

COMMENT:  There have, for years, been concerns about radical Islamist infiltration of Latin America, made much easier by the fact that an America-hating regime exists in Venezuela.  We now how porous our southern border is.  How difficult would it be to smuggle agents or even light equipment across that border?

And while this is happening, the Obama Justice Department is suing Arizona.

August 18, 2010