Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia's Defence Minister Diego Molano said on Thursday.
He referred to the alleged stationing of soldiers at the border as “foreign interference”.
Iran has built a closer relation with Venezuela in the past few years as a part of the Islamic Republic’s campaign against the United States.
Citing intelligence sources, Molano said troop movements were registered in Venezuela opposite Colombia's Arauca province, the scene of fierce clashes between guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) dissidents as they fight for control of the drugs trade.
“We know that men and units of the FANB have been mobilised towards the border with technical assistance from Russia … and Iran,” he said at an anti-drugs conference in Colombia's Caribbean city of Cartagena.
