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A protester chants while holding a poster of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a rally against the US's decision to designate the country's powerful Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organisation, last week
IRAN has accused the US of hypocrisy over claims that Tehran is interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela, warning Washington that it must stop its campaign of “economic terrorism” against Caracas.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi dismissed comments made by Mike Pompeo as “ridiculous” after the US Secretary of State claimed that Iranian money was being used in Venezuela for “malign purposes.”
Mr Pompeo claimed in February that “Hezbollah has active cells in Venezuela,” stating that Washington has “an obligation to take down that risk for America.”
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET