Venezuela Falls to Iran & What is to be done? Emanuele Ottolenghi, @FollowFDD

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Venezuela Falls to Iran & What is to be done? Emanuele Ottolenghi, @FollowFDD

Facing a parliamentary vote to oust him and a call for new elections, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 4 replaced Vice President Aristóbulo Istúriz with regime loyalist Tareck El Aissami, the governor of Aragua State. El Aissami's appointment comes at a critical time for the embattled Bolivarian regime. Venezuela's economy is spiraling into chaos under the crushing weight of triple-digit inflation, basic commodities shortages, widespread corruption and violent crime. Maduro is relying on El Aissami to tighten the regime's grip on power. As it turns out, that is in no small part thanks to his Iran and Hezbollah connections. Brig. Gen. Mohammad-Reza Naqdi, the new cultural adviser to the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chief commander and a former chief of the IRGC's Basij militia, recently announced that a Latin American team visited Iran to learn how to form a Basij-like mobilization force, praising "Iran's perseverance and success." - See more at: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/emanuele-ottolenghi-meet-venezuelas-new-vp-fan-of-iran-and-hezbollah/#sthash.iZwPP7IQ.dpuf

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