Iran Slams US Bounty on Venezuela's President

Iran condemned the United States interventions in Venezuela's domestic affairs after Washington doubled to $50 million a reward for the capture of the Latin American President, Nicolas Maduro.
“The interventionist behavior and rhetoric of US officials in the internal affairs of sovereign States, including Venezuela, have unprecedentedly been undermining the fundamental principles of the UN Charter and international law,” Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei wrote on X on Friday.“The United States’ offensive move in threatening the legitimate president of a United Nations member State and leveling baseless allegations against him reflects a growing addiction among US policymakers to militant unilateralism and unlawful coercive measures in pursuit of their illegitimate foreign policy objectives,” he stressed.
The US on Thursday offered a $50mln reward for information leading to the arrest of Maduro, doubling an earlier reward of $25mln set by the administration of President Donald Trump in January.Washington has accused the Venezuelan leader of being one of the world’s leading narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine—an allegation Caracas has repeatedly dismissed.
The Iranian spokesman stressed that no responsible nation can “remain indifferent to this dangerous trend, which targets the collective normative and ethical foundations of the UN".He also expressed Iran’s “solidarity with the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” and condemned “US unlawful interventions in Venezuela’s domestic affairs".
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