Iran Is Increasing Its Influence in Venezuela. Watch Out, U.S.

Since the fall of 2020, I have been writing about the growing relationship between the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro and Iran’s theocracy — formerly headed by Hassan Rouhani, now by Ebrahim Raisi.

At the time, I explained how the Iranians were helping the Maduro regime circumvent American energy sanctions, and how in exchange, they were asking for greater control over Venezuela’s oil industry and other of its key strategic economic sectors.