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The US-led economic war against Venezuela has brought Caracas and Tehran closer together. Iran broke the blockade against Venezuela this year, delivering much needed crude & even opening a grocery store in the country
I found this mural in central Caracas
It cant simultaneously be true that Tehran is fully infiltrator by US & Israel, and also that anyone Iran arrests as a spy is an innocent hostage academic/journo.
Free advice: If a big claim is published in a Kuwaiti newspaper and attributed to "an informed source," you can usually disregard it
Hezbollah's Nasrallah to move to Iran amid regional tensions - report
According to the report, the Hezbollah leader is to stay in Tehran indefinitely, and it is unclear exactly when he will return to Lebanon.
www.jpost.com
This is a fascinating thread listing terms that Arabs use that have a Persian root, while Iranians use the arabic root (for the same word). https://twitter.com/sharghzadeh/status/1334589898955714561
Persians call the robe many Muslim cultures wear an 'aba (عباء), which is an Arabic word, and Arabs call it a bisht (بشت) which is an Arabization of the Persian word 'back' (پشت).
US Military Claims Iranian Troops and Weapons are in Venezuela
The US is angry about the trade relationship between #Iran and #Venezuela, two heavily sanctioned countries
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/03/us-military-claims-iranian-troops-and-weapons-are-in-venezuela/
While I hope that Biden rejoins Iran deal, its premise is unjust. US has no right to impose these sanctions. As Noam Chomsky told me in 2015, "Iran should be imposing sanctions on us... During the past 60 years, not a day has passed without the US torturing the people of Iran."
There is zero evidence for this. The "source" is the US military and commander Craig Faller, the head of US Southern Command, which wants to recolonize Venezuela and all of Latin America.
But DC think tank "experts" spread this US regime propaganda without an ounce of skepticism https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1334263792251842564
"Iran has sent arms and dispatched paramilitary operatives to help Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro maintain his hold on power." https://www.wsj.com/articles/iranian-arms-fighters-bolster-maduro-government-in-venezuela-u-s-says-11606946275?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter
