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Likud minister says capture of Maduro ‘sends clear message to Khamenei’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDiaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli of the ruling Likud party joins in the praise of the US operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, saying it dealt “a fatal blow to the global axis of evil and sends a clear message to [Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei.”
“Maduro didn’t run a country, he ran a criminal and drug empire that directly fueled Hezbollah and Iran,” Chikli writes on X.
He also declares that there is a “full frontal battle between the values of freedom and the West, and the dangerous alliance of radical Islam and Communism.”
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