Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the leaders of Venezuela’s socialist regime of stealing nine tons of gold from the country’s reserve and shipping the bars to longtime ally Iran.
Pompeo said in a tweet on May 2 that “thugs” from the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro had “looted nine tons of gold bars and sent it to the Iranian regime,” adding that by doing so, Venezuela’s leaders were “partnering with the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.”
