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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Ed Morrissey: The Iran-Venezuela Connection Threat
Description: Over the last few weeks, Donald Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Nicholas Maduro to leave Venezuela. The US has plenty of good reasons to force the Marxist dictator from power, narco trafficking, human rights violations, and flooding the US with transnational criminal gang members among them. Perhaps the biggest threat Maduro poses, is his partnership with Hezbollah in Iran. Those ties go back to 1999 and Hugo Chavez, and Hezbollah is involved in every aspect of Maduro's criminal enterprises. Iran's proxy army has established its own network in Venezuela and serves the Iranian...