The Ever Dependable Bully on Embassy Row; Venezuela and Iraq Are No Longer Worlds Apart
NOVANEWS
Embassy raided; citizens starved by sanctions; coveted oil resources targeted — again.
By Barbara Nimri Aziz
The United States is still punishing Iran for the 1979 takeover of its ‘sacred’ premises, its embassy in Tehran. By contrast, when American authorities occupy another nation’s embassy there’s nothing but approval from the American public and silent acquiescence by others. I don’t know about you, but I heard no outcry, not even a quiet show of concern emanating from the diplomatic corridors of Washington or New York earlier this month around the violation of sovereign diplomatic property—that of Venezuela. That hush recalls a similar embassy breakin—the American assault on and occupation of the Iraqi embassy on Massachusetts Avenue in late 1990.
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