[News] Venezuela exposes opposition plot to attack synagogue, frame Iran

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Venezuela exposes opposition plot to attack synagogue, frame Iran
Al Mayadeen English
June 26, 2025
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Venezuela reveals opposition figures planned an attack on a synagogue in
Caracas to falsely implicate Iran and “Chávezistas”.

   - [image: Socialist Party President Diosdado Cabello gives his weekly
   press conference, in Catia La Mar, La Guaira, Venezuela, Aug. 19, 2019.
   (AP)]
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   Socialist Party President Diosdado Cabello gives his weekly press
   conference, in Catia La Mar, La Guaira, Venezuela, Aug. 19, 2019. (*AP*)

Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello has accused opposition
leader María Corina Machado, together with Venezuelan dissident Iván
Simonovis, of orchestrating an attack on a well‑known synagogue in Caracas
to frame Iran and “the Chávezistas.”

According to Cabello, Machado, and Simonovis coordinated with Reza Pahlavi,
the son of Iran’s deposed Shah, to meet Edmundo González and stage a media
event meant to “tarnish the reputations of Iran and Venezuela.” The scheme,
he asserts, would spread the rumor that “Iran plans to use Venezuela as a
platform to attack the United States, undermining Washington–Caracas
dialogue.”

Expressing solidarity with the ceasefire between Iran and “Israel”, Cabello
praised Venezuela’s peaceful stance, “We, in the Bolivarian government, always
call for peace
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-s-response-showed--israel--as--paper-tiger---venezuelan>,
while the far‑right endorses invasion and violence.”

He also referenced US intelligence, which he says conceded that American
strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities were a “catastrophic failure.”
Foreign minister shades geopolitics behind ME wars

Simultaneously, Foreign Minister Yván Gil asserted that the Middle East
conflicts are “not driven by religion,” but by a geopolitical agenda to
control natural resources and maintain a regional military foothold. During
a peace march in Caracas, Gil declared that “Zionism serves as a platform
for inhuman aggression.”

Gil emphasized Venezuela’s revolutionary legacy in championing sovereignty,
declaring, “Our voice stands firm for peoples robbed of their right to
self‑determination.”

He reiterated President Nicolás Maduro’s call for a Heads‑of‑State Summit
for Global Peace, a platform for coordinating international efforts against
violence and oppression
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/venezuela--cuba-condemn-israeli-aggression-on-iran>,
and issued a rallying cry to sovereign nations: “It’s time to raise our
unified voice against imperialism and Zionism: Enough!”
On 'Israeli nuclear threat'

Meanwhile, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez condemned “imperial
power and the Zionist entity” in the Middle East as the world’s “only real
threat.” He stated that “recent actions by Israel have lost their deterrent
effect, revealing the instability beneath their image of strength.”

Rodríguez reiterated solidarity with the Palestinians and Iran, applauding
Tehran’s response to the Israeli aggression against its sovereignty. He
noted that within just 12 days, the world witnessed the destructive reality
of the Israeli regime as "a small tiger paper" whose Iron Dome faltered
under pressure.

Rodríguez warned that as long as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads
the Israeli government, global humanity remains endangered
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/maduro-urges-global-support-for-iran--slams-netanyahu-s-madn>,
calling on the international community to overcome hypocrisy, specifically
by dismantling the “Zionist entity’s” nuclear arsenal and halting
aggression against Middle Eastern people.
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