> Vivec wrote: > What are these 'strong' ties? > In the beginning of Sept, Chavez visited Tehran and:
* Offered full support for Ahmadinejad and called Israel "a genocidal state." * Endorsed Iran's nuclear program and proposed that Venezuela work with Iran to build its own nuke plants and Iran is helping Venezuela search for uranium * Announced that Venezuela would begin supplying Iran with 20,000 barrels of gasoline a day But more interesting is the fact that Iran has recently opened banks in Caracas and factories in the Venezuela. Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, who has been investigating the arrangements, says he believes Iran is using the Venezuelan banking system to evade U.S. and U.N. sanctions and suggests that Iranian factories located "in remote and undeveloped parts of Venezuela" lack infrastructure and thuse could be "ideal . . . for the illicit production of weapons." "The opening of Venezuela's banks to the Iranians guarantees the continued development of nuclear technology and long-range missiles ... The mysterious manufacturing plants, controlled by Iran deep in the interior of Venezuela, give even greater concern." http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/26/hugo_chavez_is_up_to_no_good And this: Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday. Suleyman Tosun, a customs official at the Mediterranean port of Mersin, said military experts were asked to examine the material, which was seized last month, and decide whether to let the shipment to go to Venezuela. Authorities detected the equipment during a search of 22 containers labeled "tractor parts," Tosun said. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6585953 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307555 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
