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EMET PRAISES CONGRESSMEN FOR URGING SECRETARY POMPEO TO PREVENT IRAN FROM STATIONING ICMBs IN VENEZUELA

(Washington, D.C., November 2, 2020) On Friday, October 31st, 2020, Congressman Paul Gosar (Republican, Arizona), sent a letter ([link removed]) to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, with copies to Robert O’Brien, the National Security Advisor, and Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense, urging the U.S. to take further actions against the transfer of Iranian long-range missiles and ICMBs to Venezuela, thereby creating a missile crisis similar to the 1962 Cuban Missiles Crisis. The letter was signed by Scott Perry (Republican, Pennsylvania), Ken Buck (Republican, Colorado), Ted Yoho (Republican, Florida), Guy Reschenthaler (Republican, Pennsylvania), and Rick Crawford (Republican, Arizona).

For decades, Iran has developed their expertise in establishing logistic networks and in smuggling weapons. They have done so across Africa and the Middle East. Recently, they successfully defied both U.S. sanctions on Iranian export and Venezuelan imports by shipping oil tankers to the coast of Venezuela and flying a 747-jumbo jet to Caracas. It would not be inconceivable for Iran to smuggle long-range missiles and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) on those freights. These missiles would be in striking distance of the entire U.S. East Coast, parts of the Midwest and Southwest, as well as the Mexican Gulf and Caribbean Sea.

Positioning Iranian ballistic missiles in America’s backyard would be detrimental to U.S. national security and would limit our ability to check Iranian aggression. It would create a new equation whereby any U.S. action against Iran in the Middle East will spawn an Iranian missile threat against the U.S. The inverse is also true, any action taken against ballistic missiles aimed at the U.S. would trigger Iranian aggression against the U.S. military and our allies in the Middle East.

The Congressional letter asks Secretary Pompeo to work with our Latin American allies, in addition to the Maximum Pressure Campaign against Iran, to prevent the activities of the IRGC and Hezbollah, the Iranian arms through which it operates in Latin America. Additionally, the Congressmen ask that the State Department work with the Department of Defense to devise a plan of action to prevent any successful transfer of Iranian missiles to Venezuela.

Says Sarah Stern, EMET Founder and President, “Over the last decade and a half, we have watched as Hezbollah has patiently, incrementally, and consistently built up a formidable base in Lebanon, on Israel’s northern border. Their arsenal of missiles has reached approximately 150,000 in number which Hezbollah is now in the midst of converting into precision guided munitions which are programmed with a GPS and could potentially be able to cover all of Israel, and have the capacity to attack portions of Israel’s critical infrastructure. Iranian-backed intercontinental missiles have a range of at least 5,000 kilometers. We can ill afford to repeat the Iranian model on Israel’s northern border, and have Iranian-backed missiles on our southern border, some of which have a capacity of covering New York, Miami, Boston and Washington, D.C. America should learn an abject lesson from Israel’s painfully learned experiences."
Founded in 2005, The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) is a Washington, D.C. based think tank and policy center with an unabashedly pro-America and pro-Israel stance. EMET (which means truth in Hebrew) prides itself on challenging the falsehoods and misrepresentations that abound in U.S. Middle East policy.


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