Iran, Venezuela joint missile base in VE

[VengefulIcebox]

*I'm not familiar with Hudson New York publications journalism. Whether it has a political leaning or not. Article cited references. I came across it on Drudge.*VI


Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
December 8, 2010 at 5:00 am

Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources[1], according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit o Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment of a jointly operated military base in Venezuela, and the joint development of ground-to-ground missiles.

At a moment when NATO members found an agreement, in the recent Lisbon summit (19-20 November 2010), to develop a Missile Defence capability to protect NATO's populations and territories in Europe against ballistic missile attacks from the East (namely, Iran), Iran's counter-move consists in establishing a strategic base in the South American continent - in the United States's soft underbelly.

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If Iran, therefore, cannot get the S-300 missiles directly from Russia, it can still have them through its proxy, Venezuela, and deploy them against its staunchest enemy, the U.S..

But that is not all. According to Reuters, Iran has developed a version of the Russian S-300 missile and will test-fire it soon, as declared by the official news agency IRNA, two months after Moscow cancelled the delivery to comply with United Nations sanctions[3]. Iran, in fact, has its own capabilities for constructing missiles that could carry atomic warheads. According to a study recently released by the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, Iran is presently aiming to perfect the already existing solid-fuel, medium-range missile that can carry a nuke to hit regional targets, such as Israel[4]. If a missile base can be opened in Venezuela, many US cities will be able to be reached from there even with short-medium range missiles.


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[RANGER513]

P.O.S. Hugo Chavez has been needing his ass kicked for quite some time now......perhaps this little venture will assist someone in doing just that.

[C-MAC]

I bet the B2's over in Missouri wouldn't even get to full bombing altitude when they reached Venezuela :D

So it's becoming my much overused phrase but... nothing that a few JDAM's wouldn't take care of. I wouldn't even wake up our ground troops....

[Steadfast]

Iran will be happy to watch Venezula get blown a little closer to Iran.

[RangerX]

It's a trick. Iran wants to raise the price of the oil they produce by having other oil producing countries go all radioactive.

[adckse]

Can you say "Cuban Missile Crisis"

[Slowpoke]

If Chavez keeps fucking around, the CIA will send a couple of Mexican Drug Cartels down there to take over his sorry little Country.