“On Iran, let me start by saying no question that there’s a degree of complicity here. Iran has been supporting Hamas for many, many years,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday. “That said, we haven’t seen hard, tangible evidence that Iran was directly involved in participating in or resourcing, planning these sets of complex attacks that Hamas pulled off over the weekend.”Even Israel, which long has been suspected of carrying out out a covert campaign of sabotage and targeted killings to slow Iran’s nuclear program, hasn’t directly blamed Tehran. “We have no evidence, no intelligence proof of Iranian involvement in this situation,” said Maj. Nir Dinar, an Israeli military spokesperson. By Jon Gamrell. Full Text -> AP

Iran’s foreign minister on Sunday warned the US against deploying its navy in the Caribbean to disrupt Iranian fuel shipments to Venezuela. In a letter to United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, Mohammad Javad Zarif warned against “America’s movements in deploying its navy to the Caribbean to intervene and create disruption in (the) transfer of Iran’s fuel to Venezuela.” Full Text-> SCMP

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the US administration, in collaboration with Venezuela’s opposition figure Juan Guaido and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, is hatching a “plan for war” against Caracas. Full text-> The News

According to a Brazilian armed forces crisis scenario, Venezuela and France are the greatest threats for the next 20 years.By Juan Martinez. Full text-> The Rio Times