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Iran is supporting the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro even as the Trump administration intervenes militarily in the Caribbean and expands its crackdown on state-linked criminal networks in Caracas.
Earlier in the week Ths Iran condemned the actions of the US and publicly committed to Maduro. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei warned of “danger on the border” from US military operations in the region, contradicting the official operation of the Iran News Agency, “according to official Iranian news,” according to IRNA.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister IVán Gil Pinto was quick to accept Tehran’s support. In comments reported by the Tehran Times, he thanked Iran for its solidarity with the Venezuelan people. “
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Isaya Medina III, who was a person who was the Council of Venezuela in the Security Council of the UN established in 2017 because of Fox News Digital “Iran Preishco-Prejingship that works with an Asymmetric Enterprise, A direct threat and presents to the security of the US,” he said.
“This is a partnership of power, not principles. The institutions of involvement in Iran to strengthen the military, criminal cooperation and criminality that ignores international norms,” he said.
When asked on Monday what pulled anything, including us troops on the ground, President Donald Trump told reporters, “No, I’m not keeping anything, I’m not throwing anything away.”
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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khandene, is pictured sitting next to Iran’s military chief. (Pet Pictures)
Danny Citinowicz, a senior fellow at Israel’s Center for National Security Studies, told FOX News Digital that Iran’s public defense reflects Vehran’s deep concern.
“IRAN has become very, very worried that it will lose its major hub in Latin America,” he said. “Losing Maduro will be a strategic loss for Iran, because Venezuela is an organized hub, not only for that activity in Venezuela itself, but also for activity in Latin America in general.”
Citrinowicz was identified in the recently revealed Israeli assassination attempt in Mexico, which the Mexican authorities are linked to the operatives of the Quds forces of Iran. According to Citrinowicz, the operation shows how Iran uses the territory of Venezuela as a reserve.
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Former Iranian president Ebrahim Reisi welcomes Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro at Sadabat Palace in Tehran, Iran on June 11, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Crelingament / Handout / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
He said the Iranians “used their presence in Venezuela, especially the Quds presence, to gather good people who are actually trying to carry out these attacks,” he said. “One example of many, how they use their presence in Venezuela as a way to enter the Latin American continent and all.”
He added that Venezuela is the most important base for Iran in the region: “Losing Venezuela is not only Venezuela itself, but also the ability to use their work in Latin America in general, and it includes work like ours in Mexico.”
CITRININOWICZ said that IRAN has already lost one of its longest tenures in the region after the recent elections in Bolivia. The remaining partners included Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, but “structurally and historically, Venezuela was more important because it gave them enough room to operate.”
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Venezuela’s Minister of Petroleum Pedro Ultachea and his Iranian counterpart Javad Owji Sign the Sign during the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Miraflores Raisi in Miraflores Rune 12, 2023. (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria / Reuters)
Asked if Iran is helping the Venezuelan military directly, he said: “They have rebels on the ground. They can even send arms with vechch fires on air planes flying from Tehran to Caracas. They did that even today.”
On Tuesday, American Families Against Cartel Terrolism (Amfact) President Adriana Jones accepted the designation of the US State Department of Venezuela-based Cartel de Los Solel as a foreign terrorist organization.
Jones – his sister Maria “Rhonita” Lebaron and 4 of his children were killed in the murder of four people Jeárez Cartlel – The move shows the determination of Washington.
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“The terrorist designation of the Cartel de Los Seles is an important reminder that the Trump administration is committed to using foreign terrorist organization recognition to fight dangerous drug and trafficking cartels,” he said.
He urged policy makers to increase the same call for ju zrez Cartel and its armed wing, La Línea, arguing that every day without it “allows us to make it more likely that more American families will endure.”
Since September, the US has launched at least 21 deadly strikes on boats suspected of being involved in narcotics trafficking to the Americas, as part of what officials describe as a growing campaign tied to Venezuelan networks.
