'Die Welt': Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela

JPOST ^ | Monday May 16, 2011 | BENJAMIN WEINTHAL,

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Where is the Monroe Doctrine when we need it?

[verum ago]

I checked Google earth. Its 1800 km from Venz to the southern tip of the US. The above article says those NK weapons have ranges of 2500 -3500KM.

That's just lovely. If it's 1800 km from Venezuela to the US, then 3500 km has got to put pretty much the whole East Coast in range, right?

[org.whodat]

No problem, let’s go bomb Libya.

[marron]

What worries me isn’t Iran or Venezuela’s current technology

Exactly. Once the bases are built, nothing exists to prevent a better class of missiles from being based there.

In any case, its a provocation. A real attack would probably come in a container ship, maybe several container ships simultaneously. They are building these bases to rub our noses in it.

[Mike Darancette]

My take? He will let this fester and fester for months, and then pull a Cuban missile crisis in the final days of the reelection campaign. Idiots who know nothing and are easily "flipped" will whoop and holler and yell "USA!"

That would piss off the Hispanics voters. Obama does nothing OTOH Columbia ....

[marron]

How convenient for Obama to "WAG THE DOG" in mid October 2012 sur de la frontera in Venezuela when the charges by his GOP opponent of being soft on national security start to stick and tank his numbers.

You may well be right.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Bigtigermike.

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.

[Tzimisce]

Thank god Chavez is a peaceful man of the people or this would be concerning. :)

[Drill Thrawl]

....and just the ability to threaten our Allies in the region can do enough to destabilize all of South America...right in our back yard

Do we have any. I thought 0 had pissed them all off already.

[driftdiver]

Yeah 3500 km goes all the way up to the very southern tip of Maine. over to the eastern great lakes and down to eastern texas.

I’m using google earth’s rulers function. You place one point in Venz and then you can swing the other end of the line anywhere you want and it tells you the distance.

[Diogenesis]

[Mike Darancette]

Paraguaná Peninsula

Pretty much indefensible from an attack by sea.

[PghBaldy]

If Republicans don’t use pics such as this one uing the campaign, they are idiots. ESPECIALLY with the high gas prices.

[cll]

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, both U.S. territories with strategic military importance, are just 500 miles from Venezuela. With these missiles, Iran poses a threat to the approaches to the Panama Canal and to world trade.

[Mariner]

Well, I hope the US keeps it mouth shut and allows them to dump a pile of cash into it...then blow it to hell a few days before it’s operational.

[GOPJ]

Iran is building a training course for future US Navy Seal teams eh?

That they are...

[Shamrock-DW]

Just a suggestion...put your head in the toilet and flush 10 times. After that..if you don’t have a clear thought then get in tough and I can have a Saturday Night Special ready to send to you to blow you stupid brains out.

[caww]

Iranian Missiles in Venzuela.....”the clandestine agreement between Venezuela and Iran would mean the Chavez government would fire rocket at Iran’s enemies should the Islamic Republic face military strikes.”

Well this does sound like a pre-lude to a Cuban Missle Crisis type event. Few people, apart from FR, realiz how close we came...just a finger away.

And what does Barry have to say about this?...nothing I suppose.

[Wildbill22]

Think of it this way. Our new President in 2013 will have a purpose for all those spare nukes we have lying around that we thought we would never use.

[caww]

“Premier Hussein” could very well be staging this by allowing it to go far enough so he can come in at the last moment as a hero...pulling a Ben-Laden type hero event.