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Iran accuses US of hypocrisy over claims Tehran is interfering in Venezuela
A protester chants while holding a poster of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a rally against the US's decision to designate the country's powerful Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organisation, last week

IRAN has accused the US of hypocrisy over claims that Tehran is interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela, warning Washington that it must stop its campaign of “economic terrorism” against Caracas.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi dismissed comments made by Mike Pompeo as “ridiculous” after the US Secretary of State claimed that Iranian money was being used in Venezuela for “malign purposes.”

Mr Pompeo claimed in February that “Hezbollah has active cells in Venezuela,” stating that Washington has “an obligation to take down that risk for America.”

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