{"id":1824201,"date":"2023-01-26T05:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824201"},"modified":"2023-01-26T05:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:06:54","slug":"us-monitoring-iranian-bid-to-establish-military-presence-in-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-monitoring-iranian-bid-to-establish-military-presence-in-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"US Monitoring Iranian Bid To Establish \u2018Military Presence\u2019 in Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-monitoring-iranian-bid-to-establish-military-presence-in-panama-canal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s statement by the State Department stated that monitoring is ongoing &#8220;Iran&#8217;s attempts to have a military presence in the Western Hemisphere,&#8221; This puts the Biden administration in a difficult situation as it balances antiregime protests, Iranian militari escalation and collapsing diplomatic diplomacy over a revised nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the State Department told The\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0It is now tracking.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/iran-to-station-warships-in-panama-canal\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/iran-to-station-warships-in-panama-canal\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1674761336041000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0mVJJqNsdXmFKVNu77y-4G\">recent announcement<\/a>\u00a0by the commander of Iran\u2019s navy indicating that warships will establish a presence in the Panama Canal as soon as next month. Already, two Iranian warships\u2014including one\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/en\/news\/2023\/01\/21\/2840523\/iranian-naval-flotilla-to-dock-at-brazilian-port\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/en\/news\/2023\/01\/21\/2840523\/iranian-naval-flotilla-to-dock-at-brazilian-port&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1674761336041000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0ECsrg3STLBxZMtktHOU2v\">equipped<\/a> With &#8220;anti-ship cruise missiles, torpedoes, and naval cannons&#8221;\u2014were granted permission to dock in Brazil earlier this week, according to documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov.br\/web\/dou\/-\/despacho-decisorio-mb-n-5-de-13-de-janeiro-de-2023-458733048\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.in.gov.br\/web\/dou\/-\/despacho-decisorio-mb-n-5-de-13-de-janeiro-de-2023-458733048&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1674761336041000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1bcE9gcgYOdLHXppxBkRHS\">published<\/a> By the Brazilian Navy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aware of these claims by Iran\u2019s navy,&#8221; According to the State Department spokesperson, <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;We continue to monitor Iran&#8217;s attempts to have a military presence in the Western Hemisphere.&#8221; The official would not preview any potential action the Biden administration may take in response, or answer questions about how it views Iran\u2019s growing military presence in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s increasing influence in Latin America poses a unique problem for the Biden administration as it navigates diplomacy in the region amid a growing number of dictatorships that view an alliance with Tehran as beneficial. Venezuela, for instance, recently inked a massive foreign policy agreement with the Iranian government that will see Tehran increasing its role in the country\u2019s lucrative energy sector. Iranian vessels have more frequently voyaged into the Latin American region, and this month\u2019s announcement by the Iranian Navy indicates the hardline regime is seeking to protect its interests with force.<\/p>\n<p>Since President Joe Biden took office, Iran has been a problem. He had set out to negotiate a revised version of the 2015 agreement.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>nuclear deal. Since then Iran has been increasing its global terrorist operations, including ones that target American interests. Now that anti-government protests are gaining momentum the Biden administration refuses diplomatic defeat. It continues to attempt to coax the hardline regime into joining the nuclear agreement, which will give it billions in cash windfalls, and consolidate its control over power.<\/p>\n<p>The latest military announcement marks a major escalation by Tehran\u2019s war forces to establish a military threat in America\u2019s backyard, with the help of anti-American dictatorships in Latin America. It could lead to a showdown with Biden&#8217;s administration, already under pressure to act.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Humire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department said on Tuesday that it is monitoring &#8220;Iran&#8217;s attempts to have a military presence in the Western Hemisphere,&#8221; putting the Biden administration in an increasingly difficult position as it balances anti-regime protests, Iranian military escalation, and collapsing diplomacy over a revamped nuclear deal.<br \/>\nThe post US Monitoring Iranian Bid To Establish \u2018Military Presence\u2019 in Panama Canal appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1824204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7564,14440,4674,4921,4505,12468,14441,5430],"class_list":["post-1824201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bid","tag-canal","tag-establish","tag-iranian","tag-military","tag-monitoring","tag-panama","tag-presence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}