Dorit Shavit, deputy director-general for Latin America at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has accused the Venezuelan government of providing Iranian nationals with false passports, allowing them to move around freely in the region and to spread terrorism. Shavit, who is accompanying Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on his visit to Latin America, told the Jewish news agency AJN about the "nuclear interests" motivating Iran’s attempt to encroach on the Latin American continent.
She charged that "Venezuela is offering the Iranians false papers" with which they can travel to Caracas, and then "see if they can enter other countries with those documents. With those papers, they do not need a visa to enter all other Latin American countries. It seems there are direct flights from Teheran to Caracas. No other tourist enjoys such advantages. Nobody knows what these Iranians are doing," she said.
Shavit also revealed details about the modus operandi of Hezbollah cells, and, warning that the possibility of a third terrorist attack could not be discounted, said that the Argentinean government "absolutely concurs with Israel’s policy of condemning Iran".
"We also know that there are Hezbollah cells in Venezuela. We have not yet confirmed that they are involved in terrorist activities, but it has happened in the past and it might happen again," she said, alluding to the 1994 and 1992 attacks against the AMIA center and the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires.
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