Special Report - Iran and Latin America (ISSN 17414474)

US anxiety about Iran's activities in Latin America persists. In congressional testimony in January 2009, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates maintained that he was concerned about the level of “subversive activity that the Iranians are carrying on in a number of places in Latin America, particularly South America and Central America". Gates added that Iran's close alliance with certain Latin American countries has caused more concern for him than Russia's recent naval manouevres in the region.