Days ago, Germany’s Die Welt published an investigative report on a secret agreement between Venezuela and Iran for a joint medium-range missile base on Venezuelan soil. The 1,100 word article by columnist Clemens Wergin, outlines not only the location of the base, but offers details on its design and strategic purpose, which will not only pose a threat to the United States, but to Venezuela’s Latin American adversaries, including Colombia.
For Germany’s Die Welt, Clemens Wergin writes in part:
The base will be built on the Paraguaná Peninsula, roughly 75 miles from the Colombian border. A small group of senior Iranian engineers from Khatam al-Anbia, an engineering firm controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, has already inspected the site.
The secret visit in early February was approved by the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force, Amir al-Hadschisadeh, who coordinated the visit with his Venezuelan counterparts.
Information gathered by Die Welt also suggests that on their visit to Venezuela, members of the Iranian delegation carried cash in their luggage for the project’s initial funding. Western security circles suspect that this involved tens of millions of dollars siphoned off from Iran’s burgeoning oil profits.
The Iranian delegation visited to help develop an infrastructure to protect against air attack. Also planned is the construction of a command and control station, residential areas, watchtowers, and bunkers, in which warheads, missile fuel and other items can be stored. In cooperation with its Venezuelan partners, Iran also intends to build missile silos at a depth of about 61 ft.
According to the secret agreement between the two countries, Venezuela pledged to Iran that it will be able to strike its enemies from the joint missile base. Iran is attempting to boost its strategic threat to the U.S., similar to the Soviet strategy in Cuba during the 1960s … Furthermore, the joint base, to be built with Iranian know-how, will allow Venezuela to threaten neighbors like Columbia.”
On the other hand, the joint medium-range missile base, to be built with Iranian know-how, will allow Venezuela to threaten neighboring countries like Columbia.
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Venezuela Analysis has published a reaction from the Venezuelan government to this story, in which it denies all of the allegations and criticizes “U.S. corporate media outlets that used the Die Welt article to publish their own reinterpretations of the story.”
