The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, receiving the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in Tehran in 2016. (Credit: Photo taken from Khamenei's website)
Hezbollah, which has a real but uneven presence in Latin America, has just lost a foothold in Caracas. Beyond being another setback for the party, the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday by the U.S. shows how far the Trump administration is prepared to go against its adversaries.This prospect is all the more alarming at a time when Washington is openly threatening to intervene in Iran if the security forces use force against citizens who have been protesting for a week amid the political and economic crisis. This is not to mention Israel, which is waiting for a U.S. green light to launch a broader new offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.Saturday’s events came as a real shock to the party.As recently as September, Faisal Abdel Sater, a political analyst and a Hezbollah supporter, said, “If the ‘Axis of...
Hezbollah, which has a real but uneven presence in Latin America, has just lost a foothold in Caracas. Beyond being another setback for the party, the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday by the U.S. shows how far the Trump administration is prepared to go against its adversaries.This prospect is all the more alarming at a time when Washington is openly threatening to intervene in Iran if the security forces use force against citizens who have been protesting for a week amid the political and economic crisis. This is not to mention Israel, which is waiting for a U.S. green light to launch a broader new offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.Saturday’s events came as a real shock to the party.As recently as September, Faisal Abdel Sater, a political analyst and a Hezbollah supporter, said, “If the ‘Axis of...
