The government of Perú, under the recently inaugurated leadership of conservative President Keiko Fujimori, announced on Tuesday that it would sever diplomatic ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran, citing a variety of human rights and terrorism violations by the rogue regime.
\n\nPeru reportedly communicated the rupture in ties to the Iranian government through the latter’s embassy in Ecuador, as it does not have direct physical representation in Peru, representing the latest in a series of political losses in Latin America for the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism. Once ascendant in the region through its relationship with late dictator Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Iran, along with its allies such as China and Russia, has seen a steady erosion of regional influence; the successive election of conservative and libertarian governments in countries such as Argentina, Chile, Peru, Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic have resulted in the installation of governments friendlier to the United States and its allies, prominently Israel. In Venezuela itself, the arrest of narcoterrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro paved the way for a nominally socialist government that restored diplomatic ties with Israel this year, a move seen as weakening Caracas’s bond with Tehran.
\n\nIn an extensive…
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