Merkel Vows to Support Greece
Source: www.thedailybeast.com - Saturday, August 25, 2012
New Greek government hopes to reform.Venezuela-Iran UAVs
Source: armscontrolwonk.com - Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Remember how I had that massive series of Venezuela-Iran posts all queued up? Well, this is convenient. There are two separate stories in Spanish-language media based on leaks from the United States providing lots of gory details about Iran-Venezuela cooperation on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Here is what happened: Conservative Spanish news outlet ABC.es (not to be confused with the American Broadcasting Company) reported that the New York Attorney General is investigating the sale of UAVs from Iran to Venezuela. The Attorney General of New York? As best I can make out with my schoolboy Spanish, the US is interested in a pair of financial transactions. Compañía Anónima Venezolana de Industrias Militares (CAVIM) — Venezuela’s state-controlled defense firm — paid $28 million to Iran’s Aerospace Industries Organizations (AIO) through a bank in Frankfurt. The Iranians kicked back 2.8 million to a Venezuelan company called COMARVEN, which purportedly constructed two hangers and control center somewhere near the Venezuelan city of Maracay. The documents also indicate, according to ABC.es, some sort of shipment to CAVIM from Kimia Sanaat, a sanctioned entity that previously attempted to procure sensitive items in Germany for Iran’s UAV program ( Wikileaks cable ). There are some questions about the remaining $25 million, given the small number (6-12) of UAVs. Did Venezuela buy something else? The sources seem to imply that perhaps 
