Turkey took the highly unusual step of intercepting Iranian cargo bound for Venezuela. Now, Turkey would hate to spoil relations with its powerful neighbor, especially at a time when it might need Iranian gas to replace the vulnerable Russian supply.
The official version is that the cargo contained an “explosives lab.” That’s ridiculous. An explosive lab is something simple enough that Venezuelans would have no trouble developing it locally. And why was the suspicious cargo inspected by physicists from Turkey’s Atomic Institute? Why were the containers opened in the first place? Thousands of containers from Iran are shipped through Turkey and almost never inspected. Clearly, the Turks received intelligence information. The cargo was sensitive enough that Iran didn’t want to ship it through Bandar Abbas port and risk interception by the US Navy.
Consider also the recent Russian commitment to develop “peaceful nuclear energy” in Venezuela. It seems Iran has transferred nuclear know-how to the US backyard.
Venezuela expelled Israel’s ambassador to protest the Gaza operation. Hardly anyone in Venezuela knows where Gaza is.
“Hardly anyone in Venezuela knows where Gaza is.”
uhmmmm…. at least we know that Miami isn´t Florida´s capital city.