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Foreign minister denies
report Iran to send nukes to Cuba, Venezuela
Sun
Sentinel, FL.
, April 18 2006.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's
foreign minister denied Tuesday a local
media report alleging that Iran was planning
to send nuclear missiles to Venezuela and
Cuba.
The Caracas-based newspaper 2001, citing
unnamed U.S. intelligence sources, reported
that Iran and Venezuela had reached a secret
arms deal to ship missiles to Venezuela
and Cuba aboard oil tankers to avoid detection
from U.S. satellites and spy planes.
"It tops a chain of absurdities that
have been unloaded on Venezuela in recent
years,'' Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez
was quoted as saying in an interview with
the state TV broadcaster early Tuesday.
The newspaper did not give any details
about how it obtained the information, and
other Venezuelan newspapers did not carry
the report.
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Co. & South Florida Interactive Inc.
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