Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello has laid bare a plot orchestrated by the country’s opposition leaders, in coordination with the son of Iran’s deposed monarch, to stage an attack on a synagogue in Caracas.
In remarks delivered on Thursday, Cabello accused opposition figure María Corina Machado and former security chief Iván Simonovis of planning the false-flag attack on a synagogue frequented by many members of the Jewish community in the South American nation.
According to Cabello, the scandalous plot – coordinated with Reza Pahlavi, the US-based son of the former Iranian dictator - involved a meeting with opposition politician Edmundo González and was intended to create a media spectacle that would “tarnish the reputations of Iran and Venezuela.”
Cabello said the plan was to carry out the attack and then circulate false accusations that the Islamic Republic was using Venezuelan territory to target Jews and launch operations against the United States from Venezuela.
He warned that the aim was to disrupt the fragile diplomatic dialogue between Caracas and Washington and to stoke further tensions between Iran and the US, particularly in the aftermath of recent Israeli-American aggression against Iran.
The Venezuelan minister also denounced the US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, describing them as a “catastrophic failure,” citing US intelligence assessments that the strikes failed to achieve their objectives.
Venezuela remains one of Iran’s all-weather allies in Latin America, with both nations strengthening diplomatic and trade ties in recent years despite cruel US sanctions.
Israel didn’t anticipate Iran would demonstrate such military capabilities: Maduro
Following Israel’s recent 12-day unprovoked military aggression against Iran, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expressed strong support for Tehran, condemning the aggression as “unjustified” and in violation of international law.
After Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire, Maduro proposed a global “Summit for Peace and Against War,” aimed at dismantling the Israeli regime’s undeclared nuclear arsenal.
“We propose advancing the creation of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in West Asia and call on the Security Council to implement a mechanism for nuclear disarmament in Israel, whose secret arsenal poses a serious threat to regional and global stability,” Maduro wrote in a letter addressed to world leaders.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil echoed the president’s message, condemning Zionism as “a platform for inhuman aggression.”
“It’s time to raise our unified voice against imperialism and Zionism: Enough,” Gil declared during a peace march in Caracas.
Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez also denounced “imperial power and the Zionist entity” as the world’s “only real threat” in the West Asia region.
Rodríguez expressed unwavering solidarity with both the Palestinian people and the Islamic Republic of Iran, praising Tehran’s retaliatory operations against Israeli aggression.
He noted that in just 12 days, the world witnessed the reality of the Israeli regime as a “paper tiger,” with its much-touted Iron Dome defense system crumbling under pressure.
Venezuela was also among the first countries to condemn Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, calling it an “imperialist war” designed to secure control over regional resources.
On June 19, thousands of Venezuelans flooded the streets of Caracas to express solidarity with Iran and Palestine, denouncing Zionism and Western hegemony, and reaffirming their call for global justice and resistance.
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