Friday, January 6, 2012

Is Iran Building A Missile Base In Venezuela?

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Is This The Venezuelan Missile Base Being Built With Iranian Oil Profits? -- Business Insider

This unconfirmed report goes back a few months but is simply more interesting given the mounting tensions with Iran.

An article from the May 2011 Jerusalem Post reports Tehran is building intermediate-range missile launch pads at a base on the Paraguaná Peninsula in Venezuela (via Die Welt).

The J-Post says the Revolutionary Guard-controlled engineering group Khatam al-Anbia is helping build the site said, that will include missile defenses, special forces units, and control stations.

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Update: Iran building missile base in Venezuela -- Lee DeCovnick, American Thinker

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My Comment: I guess this will be on the itinerary when he visits Venezuela.

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