Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Is Iran Building Rocket Bases In Venezuela?

An Iranian Shahab 3 missile. (UPI)

'Die Welt': Iran Building Rocket Bases In Venezuela -- Jerusalem Post

German paper says Iranians paid cash to build mid-range missile launch pads on Paraguana Peninsula; Iranian engineers visited site in Feb.

BERLIN – The Iranian government is moving forward with the construction of rocket launch bases in Venezuela, the German daily Die Welt wrote in its Friday edition.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally.

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February. Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.”

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My Comment: This story is actually old news. But if true, the following question then begs an answer .... what are the Iranians (and Venezuelans) thinking?

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