Venezuela's PSUV Secretary General Diosdado Cabello during a weekly press conference on Monday, April 7, 2025. Photo: Con el Mazo Dando.
Venezuela has uncovered a plot orchestrated by the country’s opposition, in coordination with the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, to attack a synagogue in Caracas and then blame Iran for the attack.
Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, accused opposition leader MarĂa Corina Machado and former security chief Iván Simonovis of planning the false flag attack against a well-known synagogue frequented by many members of the Jewish community in Caracas.
According to Cabello, the scandalous plot—coordinated with Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Iranian dictator based in the United States—involved a meeting with opposition politician Edmundo González and was intended to create a media spectacle that would “tarnish the reputation of Iran and Venezuela” by blaming both the Iranian Embassy in Venezuela and the Venezuelan government for this terrorist act.
Cabello informed that the plan was to carry out an attack with explosives and then spread false news that the Islamic Republic was using Venezuelan territory as a platform to attack Jews and launch operations against the United States.
He warned that the goal of this extremist plan was to sabotage the dialogue agenda between the Venezuelan and US governments and further fuel tensions between Iran and the United States, particularly after the recent Israeli-US aggression against Iran.
The Venezuelan top official also denounced the US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling them a “catastrophic failure,” citing US intelligence assessments that the attacks failed to achieve their objectives.
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Venezuela remains one of Iran’s staunchest allies in Latin America, and the two nations have strengthened their diplomatic and commercial ties in recent years despite harsh US sanctions.
Following Israel’s recent unprovoked 12-day military aggression against Iran, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expressed his firm support for Tehran, condemning the aggression as “unjustified” and in violation of international law and calling for an international peace summit for West Asia to denuclearize the whole region, including “Israel.”
