Iran Venezuela

VENEZUELA BUILDING ROCKET BASES WITH THE HELP OF IRAN…….

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

When they’re not busy cooperating on building a nuclear infrastructure in Venezuela, their busy building rocket bases to protect it.

‘Die Welt’: Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST CORRESPONDENT
05/17/2011 01:41

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.”

The rocket bases are to include measures to prevent air attacks on Venezuela as well as commando and control stations.

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