Posted on 09/07/2009 12:04:23 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
DEBKAfiles Iranian sources disclose that Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are working on a wide-raging plan to replicate Irans key nuclear installations in Venezuela, possibly in the framework of a new program there on the Iranian and North Korean models.
The French news agency AFP, reporting from Tehran Sunday, disclosed Chavezs suggestion to Iran to establish in his country a nuclear village to produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. But, according to DEBKAfiles Iranian sources, the conversation between the two presidents Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5-6, when they visited Shiite shrines in Meshhad, went as far as to discuss the relocation or replication of key elements of the Iranian nuclear industry to Venezuela, both to keep them safe and to guarantee they would keep on ticking over if Iran was attacked by the US or Israel.
Their talks have advanced far enough to get Washington worried about the prospect of yet another hostile nuclear program coming into being, this one at Americas back door.
Chavez eagerly embraces the plan as another chance to rile the Americans, while the Iranian president stopped trusting Damascus as Tehrans nuclear back-up partner when Israel demolished the nuclear facility under construction by North Korea in northern Syria two years ago and its president began to be wooed by the Obama administration.
While establishing a joint team cagily assigned with developing nuclear cooperation for peaceful purposes a covert track between Iran and Venezuela is progressing much faster on costing the replication of Iranian nuclear plants in the South American country as compared with their transfer, lock, stock and barrel.
Are they going to run a long power-cord from Venezuela to Iran to deleiver the peaceful electricity generated by this nuke plant?
Can’t we just have 0be talk to these two?
just what we need. A Tin horn South American dictator with nukes.
What will our glorious leader do? (wringing hands)
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