Everybody Is Laughing at Venezuela Now: Venezuela Complains Iran’s Foreign Minister Insulted Nation

“Venezuela’s socialist regime, a longtime ally of Iran’s Islamic regime, on Tuesday protested the “derogatory and inappropriate expressions” recently espoused by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi regarding Venezuela.

 

According to several international outlets, a video clip circulating on social media taken from an interview Foreign Minister Araghchi recently held with Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency shows the foreign minister affirm that his country “isn’t Venezuela” when it comes to negotiating with the United States.

 

“This isn’t Venezuela, where they take one person and everyone else gets scared and backs down,” Araghchi said, according to a clip published by the Venezuelan outlet El Diario on Wednesday morning.

 

The comments reportedly expressed by Araghchi appear to compare the United States’ January 3 arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas with the ongoing conflict against the Islamic Iranian regime.

 

On its official social media accounts, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry informed that it summoned Iranian Ambassador Ali Chegini to hand over a protest note over the “derogatory and inappropriate statements about Venezuela’s institutions and authorities.”

 

The ministry noted that it demanded the “cessation of all allusion or comparison that undermines the dignity, sovereignty, institutional framework, or good name of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”

 

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry did not publicly specify which “derogatory and inappropriate” statements it was referring to.

 

“The Venezuelan government reiterates its position regarding the bases of relations between all countries: mutual respect, sovereign equality, non-interference in internal affairs, and the other principles of International Law that have historically guided the relations between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the Ministry wrote.”

 

Right.