October 23, 2007 (LPAC)--The U.S. Congress, with its 10.7% approval rating, is attempting a fast nose dive to less than double digits by outdoing the Bush-Cheney administration in their ruin of United States relations with every region in the world.

For in their infinite wisdom, the Foreign Relations Committee, of the House of Representatives, today passed a resolution effectively declaring any Iranian relations with the nations of Central and South America as constituting a terrorist threat, and suggesting U.S. relations with its southern neighbors should be determined by whether or not those nations agree to treat the nation of Iran as their enemy, too.

Among the long list of Iran's "threatening behaviors [with]... national security implications" cited in House Resolution 435, are such activities as the reopening of embassies in five South American nations, the fact that Iranian President Ahmadinejad has dared visit the Western Hemisphere twice in two years to meet with Presidents and attend inaugurations, and, God forbid, that "routine civilian airline flights" have been established between Tehran and Caracas.

In expressing its "concern over the emerging national security implications of the relationships between the leaders of Iran and regimes in the Western Hemisphere like Venezuela," the resolution even seeks to put the House on record for regime change in Venezuela, in the bargain.

Counter-terror officials from South America have repeatedly and angrily rejected the kind of sweeping allegations of an alleged "Islamic terrorist threat" from the region, which were the basis for the House resolution. The officials demanded, to no avail, that the U.S. provide actionable evidence of any terrorist cell, rather than simply war rhetoric.