Three days after the Obama administration took office, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton copied a cable to the US Embassy in Georgetown expressing qualms about Iran’s outreach to the Caribbean and seeking clarity on Tehran’s strategic objectives.
The cable dated January 23, 2009 and classified as secret from the freshly sworn-in Secretary of State was dispatched to South American, Caribbean and Central American countries including Guyana. It is one of over 250,000 released by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, that have created an international uproar. There are said to be 380 cables originating from the US mission in Georgetown. This cable is not one of them.
In the cable Clinton evinced worry about the ties between Iran and Venezuela and whether these extended to arms smuggling and
