Venezuela President: Israel, US Behind Morsi Ouster
Venezuela’s president accused Israel and the United States of conspiring to oust former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and stirring unrest in Syria, the AFP news agency reported on Saturday.
The news comes as Caracas recalled its ambassador from Egypt in protest of the military-backed government’s crackdown on Morsi’s Islamist supporters and the Muslim Brotherhood.
“We have witnessed a blood bath in Egypt,” President Nicolas Maduro was quoted as saying. “We warned that the coup against Morsi was unconstitutional. Morsi was kidnapped and the responsible party for what is occurring in Egypt is the [American] empire, which has its hands in it."
"The United States doesn't have friends, it has interests, and what it wants is to control the planet,” Maduro added.
Venezuela has allied itself with forces that are hostile to Western interests in the Middle East, chief among them Iran. Despite their geographical distance, the fiery anti-US ideologues have forged increasingly close ties between their fellow OPEC nations in recent years, although concrete projects have often lagged behind the rhetoric.
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