Iran’s Supply of Combat Drones to Venezuela Highlights Terrorism Risks

And Biden is giving Iran nukes.

Iran’s military cooperation with Venezuela is a serious national security threat. But that won’t stop the Biden Administration from signing off on the new Russia-China brokered Iran nuclear deal. A deal that will guarantee that Iran gets nukes and billions of dollars in sanctions relief to fund more terror. And today, the Biden Administration seeks to buy oil from Iran ally Venezuela. Where is the Republican Party on this?? Every Republican should be blasting the Biden Administration on every news channel and social media site in America. As should the current Israeli government.

“Israel’s contention that its regional foe Iran is helping Venezuela build combat drones is raising concerns that the two anti-U.S. allies could enable such drones to be used for terrorism.”

Iran’s Apparent Supply of Combat Drones to Venezuela Highlights Terrorism Risks

By VOA News, March 9, 2022

Israel’s contention that its regional foe Iran is helping Venezuela build combat drones is raising concerns that the two anti-U.S. allies could enable such drones to be used for terrorism.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on February 22 that his government determined that “Iranian precision-guided missiles are being delivered” to Venezuela to be fitted into “advanced Iranian Mohajer” drones and similar models. As Gantz spoke, a screen showed an image of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro presenting a model of a drone on state TV.

Research group Aurora Intel, which first tweeted the screen shot of the Venezuelan TV program in November 2020, said the model was a representation of an Iranian Mohajer-6 drone, the latest version of its kind. Its capabilities include missile strikes and surveillance at a range of 200 kilometers and an endurance of 12 hours.

“With this image in mind,” Gantz said, “I can tell you that in my meetings with partners from around the world, including African and Latin American partners, I heard extreme concern about Iranian support for terrorism.”

Iran has provided drone technology to Venezuela since 2007, beginning with assembly kits for the early-generation Iranian Mohajer-2 surveillance drone, which has a 50- kilometer range. Iranian authorities began mass production of the Mohajer-6 combat drone in 2018.

There are no known cases of Venezuela’s Iranian-designed drones being used in terrorist attacks. But several experts in Iran-Venezuela military ties told VOA that the drones could be used in attacks either by U.S.-designated terrorist organizations or by what the U.S. calls the “illegitimate Maduro regime,” which harbors the groups.

Terror groups in Venezuela

The U.S. State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Terrorism, published in December, said that Venezuela remained a “permissive environment for known terrorist groups” that have a “complicated relationship” with Maduro “characterized by both conflict and cooperation.”

One of those U.S.-designated terror groups is Iran’s top military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which appeared in Venezuela in the late 2000s. Another group is Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy whose activity in Venezuela grew significantly in the early 2010s.

“The Venezuelan government’s enduring strategic alliance with Iran suggests that it could allow the Iranians or their proxies to use military assets such as drones for their own purposes,” said Emanuele Ottolenghi, an analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano said in November that Hezbollah militants active in neighboring Venezuela posed a threat to his country, making them a “common enemy” of both Colombia and Israel.

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