Iran Uses Venezuela For Arms Exports To Syria

LONDON [MENL] -- Iran has employed Venezuela as a means to smuggle military
equipment to Syria.
Western intelligence sources said the CIA and other agencies have
determined that Venezuela was secretly transporting Iranian military
equipment to Syria. In late 2008, they said, Venezuela, amid seizures of
Iranian equipment in Turkey, used civilian aircraft to send the Iranian equipment
banned by the United Nations.
"Venezuela has been willing to help Iran get around Security Council
sanctions, and this means that banned Iranian companies send material
through Venezuela to Syria or any other country that orders the equipment,"
an intelligence source said.