Venezuela is helping Iran in transporting materials for making missiles.
Venezuela is helping Iran transport to Syria material that is used for the manufacture of missiles and thus evading the sanctions of the UN, the Italian daily said Sunday, according to various western intelligence services, among them the CIA
According to La Stampa, citing informants from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and other western secret services, Iran is using planes of the national Venezuelan company Conviasa to transport to Syria material that is used to make missiles.
Syria and Iran confirmed an agreement in 2006 for military cooperation. This material (computers, parts for motors), is being provided by the Iranian industrial group Shahid Bagheri (SBIG), set out in the attachment to Resolution 1737 of the UN for its participation in the Iranian ballistic missile program.
The object of this agreement is to provide materiel for the Revolutionary Guards, according to the morning paper, that does not offer other details.
In exchange for the airlift, Tehran is making available to Caracas members of its Revolutionary Guards’ elite unit, Al Quds, in order to train and build up the Venezuelan secret service and police.
The Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadiinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez share a repulsion toward the United States, and particularly the government of its current president, George W. Bush.
Iran and Venezuela have reached several agreements for economic cooperation. Chavez has given his support to Ahmadinejad in a speech on the controversial Iranian nuclear program.
The western countries, led by the United States and Israel, accuse Iran of pursuing military ends with its program of uranium enrichment.
The U.N. has adopted four resolutions – three of them with sanctions- demanding that Iran suspend its nuclear program. Tehran asserts that it only is pursuing civilian uses.
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