. . . the threat of Iran in Latin America is real. In October, the Justice Department charged an American citizen with seeking assistance from the Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas, in a murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States. “The Iranians believe that we are at war with them,” one recently retired former senior intelligence official told The Daily Beast. “We don’t see it that way, but they certainly do.”

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