Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of collaborating with Venezuela's Maduro regime to export terrorism to the American hemisphere, stating they seek to infiltrate Hezbollah and Hamas members into the United States, according to an X post by @Osint613 shared during the three-hour reporting window ending at 1:15 PM UTC on December 31. Netanyahu said, "Iran is in cahoots with the Maduro regime. They’re exporting terrorism to America, to the American hemisphere, and they want Hezbollah and Hamas to get their guys into the United States." The statement comes amid heightened U.S.-Venezuela tensions, including President Donald Trump's declassification earlier on December 31 of a CIA attack inside Venezuela on December 24, as cited by U.S. officials in The Wall Street Journal, and U.S. Marines with the 22nd MEU(SOC) conducting maritime interdiction training in the Caribbean Sea on December 31, according to posts by @22nd_MEU on X. Additional context includes a scorched boat and bodies washing up last month on a beach near Puerto López in Colombia’s Guajira Peninsula, reported by The New York Times as evidence of the U.S. strike campaign against narco-trafficking vessels.
