Maduro bragged just days before capture that Iranian air-defense systems would protect Venezuela

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro boasted about his country’s defensive capabilities just days before U.S. forces captured him in a dramatic overnight raid. Maduro reportedly claimed that air-defense systems his government received from Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps would protect Venezuela from any attack, according to a post on X by Ahmed Quraishi, a journalist covering national security in the Middle East and North Africa who...