The Iranian regime has been massively growing its influence in Europe, especially in Portugal: its military and intelligence unit has amassed great influence over the Portuguese Soialist-Communist government. Iran is taking advantage of the well-known antisemitism and anti-American feelings of the current Portuguese Prime Minister Antรณnio Costa.
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The close connection between some prominent Portuguese politicians (who are currently in charge) and the Iranian ayatollah regime dates back a while โ however, it has become stronger over the last years when Costa and his ideologue, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, took over the country with the full support of the Portuguese communist party.
Unsurprisingly, the Portuguese Socialist government has been using the whole state apparatus to threaten critics of the Iranian and Russian regimes with lawfare strategies, following the classic IRGC-Quds Forces and Putin's playbook. These threats include warnings by Portuguese government officials in case we do not tone down the โ and I quote โ "Zionist speech." This is just something we would expect not to experience in a Western democracy, let alone in a member-state of the European Union, which requires members to fully respect the principles of the rule of law, separation of powers, and the primacy of human rights โ all of which do not currently exist in socialist-communist Portugal.
The main victim of the Costa government antisemitism was the Jewish community, which was a target of an operation only possible in a preposterous totalitarian regime.
Lebanon is a junior partner of Iranian IRGC-Quds forces in Portugal, identifying opponents of both Iran and Hezbollah, collecting personal data, and infiltrating key positions within the Portuguese government. Portugal is a strategic geopolitical region for Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia because of its historic ties to Africa (especially, but not only, Western Africa) and Latin America as well as its proximity to Morocco and England.
Truly, one of the main goals of Iran and Hezbollah is to strengthen their operational capabilities in England, to be able to spy on key citizens and assets, and to expand their capacity to undermine the United States through Europe and the Mediterranean.
Portugal and Spain are instrumental for Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia to bring mayhem to the United Kingdom (including Gibraltar) and Morocco. Let's not forget Portugal is a central international platform to evade the US sanctions on Iran and Russia.
Whereas in the United States and the UK, the government protects its citizens over Iran โ in radical Socialist-Communist Portugal, Costa protects Iran over its own citizens.
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