Persia, Pakistan, Venezuela: U.S. “Sabotage”

 Murder of nations, peace processes, global relations

Editing by Carolyn Bennett

U.S. Sabotage: Venezuela

November 2, 2013: “Venezuela says it is fighting economic sabotage.”

The country’s relatively new president, Nicolas Maduro, has denounced a U. S. plan reportedly designed to 

President
Nicolas Maduro

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

bring down his country’s socialist government by causing shortages of vital food products such as milk, meat, and chicken; also rising inflation, cuts in electricity, increases in contraband on the Venezuelan-Colombian border, and theft of government-supplied foreign exchange. Venezuela’s Oil Minister and President of the state oil company PDVSA, Rafael Ramirez, told journalists that the opposition in his country is using a strategy aimed creating panic and destabilization among Venezuelans.

Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA, Spanish pronunciation: [peðeˈβesa]) (Petroleum of Venezuela) is the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company ─Wikipedia

 

Different sides reportedly differ as to what is playing out in Venezuela. The opposition argues that the government’s negligence is generating the crisis. Socialists say the United States is leading sabotage against President Maduro.

President
Hassan Rouhani
Islamic Republic of Iran

  

U.S./Israeli Sabotage: Iran

October 30, 2013: Binghamton University (New York) Sociology Professor emeritus James Petras told Press TV on Wednesday, the “Israel lobby [is] trying to ‘sabotage’ Iran-U.S. nuclear talks.”

Having failed to convince Washington to launch a military strike against Iran, the professor said, “The Israel lobby in the United States is now focusing on ‘sabotaging’ nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers” and ‘strangling [Iran’s] economy.’”

Outlining underlying motives, Petras pointed out that Israel’s government “‘has very close relations with its proxies in the United States, essentially the principal Zionist organizations, who are very heavily funded and have financed the electoral campaigns and provided direct contributions totaling over 100 million dollars over the last 30 years and actually have financed 230 politicians in the U.S. Congress and over 50 senators.…

“‘They have bought the U.S. Congress,’” he said.

Illustrating the point, Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declared in a Monday meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in New York that now “‘is not the time to loosen sanctions’” warfare in Iran. 

Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif
Islamic Republic of Pakistan

U.S. Sabotage: Pakistan

November 2, 2013: Interior Minister calls U.S. drone strike “‘murder of peace’” [sabotage]

After Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif announced that his government had begun dialogues with Taliban militants in the hope of stopping the death of people and security forces, a U.S. assassination drone targeted and killed Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud along with four other people in the tribal area of North Waziristan. The Taliban rapidly replaced their slain leader with Khan Said Sanja and “promised a wave of bombings in retaliation for Mehsud’s death.”

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Pakistan’s Foreign Office said “the Friday U.S. strike was ‘counter-productive’ to [was sabotaging] that country’s efforts to bring peace and stability to Pakistan and the region.’” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the U.S. strike was a “‘murder of peace’: seen by his country as ‘a strike not on an individual but [a strike] on the peace process.’”

The Press TV report said Pakistan has summoned the U.S. envoy to protest the latest killings.

Links: Sources

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/02/332551/venezuela-says-it-is-fighting-economic-sabotage/

October 30, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/30/332125/israel-fails-to-mobilize-us-for-iran-war/

October 31, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/31/332317/israel-trying-to-undermine-iranus-talks/

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/02/332612/us-envoy-summoned-over-drone-strike/

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