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Capacity to influence?
Treatment
of dissent
Reliance on military & revolutionary militias/
guards to intimidate opposition
Iran provides public opinion experts to assist
Chavez
“Ahmadinejad is love’
“Chavez is love”

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Use of elections to secure/maintain
legitimacy
Elections controlled
Change implied in elections unacceptable to
leaders of both countries
Counter
efforts to isolate
Access to technology
Petroleum
Military

Opposition
to the United States
Dislike of secular consumer culture
Chavez:
seven visits to Tehran since 2004
Thirty cooperative agreements
Truck factory
Ammunition factory
Cement plant

Weekly
flight Caracas – Damascus – Tehran
Venezuela expresses support for Iran’s right
to develop nuclear energy
Purchase
of Corp Banca C.A (May 2008)
Paperwork processed in record time
Iranian Board of Directors
Circumvents embargo – allows Iran to move
money around USA

Iran
– Venezuela Development Bank
April 2009
Capital begins $200 million to $1.2 Billion
Capital projects (possibly uranium mining)

Iranian
military advisors embedded with
selected Army units since 2006
Iranian advisors from Revolutionary Guards
assist in organizing popular militias and
Francisco Miranda Front
Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed
Najjar met with Venezuelan Vice President
Ramon Carrizalez, (also acting defense
minister) in March 2009
Alain
Joxe: “La Guerra USA-Iraq: Imperio,
guerra asimetrica y caos global
Army field manuals from period of USA
cooperation burned
Asymmetric warfare adopted as official
doctrine of Venezuelan military
Iranian military manuals discussing
asymmetric warfare appear in Venezuela
Colombian
Army raid on
camp of Raul Reyes (May
2008)08
Iranian field manuals
$480,000 cash in Costa
Rican safe house traced
to Iran
Low grade uranium
buried (30 kilos)
What
is Iran’s capability to influence
conditions/events in Latin America that
impact on U.S. ?
How concerned should the U.S. be with
Iranian activities in Venezuela?