Maduro: If the US attacks, Venezuela will enter the armed struggle – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro emphasized that his country would “fight armed struggle” if it was attacked, Mehr News Agency quoted Anatolia.

The Venezuelan president said that while Venezuela is “still in the stage of unarmed struggle”, every attack will cause “all people to rape, local, regional or national.”

He added: “No cocaine is produced in Venezuela, this is an American lie, like a lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (and they attacked Iraq).” They also lie about Caracas.

Meanwhile, he had earlier announced that in response to tensions between the country and the United States following the increase in Washington’s military presence in the Caribbean, more than 5 million citizens in the form of “national militias.” Bolivar»Call.

During a meeting with government officials and armed forces broadcast on Venezuela’s state -run television network, Maduro said that “a powerful base consisting of 4.3 million militants who have been trained for years have also been summoned, and more than 5 million people in the National Military Organization” BolivarThey have registered, they will join them.

Maduro said the purpose of the call was to strengthen the logistical and organizational forces to ensure security and defend Venezuela in the face of internal and external threats, and emphasized that the call is the first phase of a comet to prepare popular forces.

Earlier, after the tensions between the United States and Venezuela, after the deployment of US forces on the Caribbean coast under the pretext of combating Venezuelan drug cartels, two F -2 fighters flew over a US Navy destroyer.

The incident, which the Pentagon claimed to be in international waters, exacerbated tensions between Washington and Caracas just two days after the US invasion of a Venezuelan boat and killing its four passengers, Reuters quoted two US officials as saying.