Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read. If you're in the Middle East and need to get to Caracas, no matter when you try to book yourself on Iran Air 744 out of Tehran, Iran, you will not be able to find an available seat on this Friday flight -- this dispite the fact that it goes twice per month.  This flight is thought to be reserved for jihadist headed into S. American and points beyond.  The fact that, "Upon arrival, the plane is met by special Venezuelan forces and sequestered from other arrivals."

Our CIA has been aware of this for several years and note that passengers "[...] may not even need visas because they are special passengers."

It is bad enough that no one knows who is aboard this 747SP into Venezuela's Caracas Maiquetía International Airport (CCS),  but there are significant concerns that the flight back to the Middle East is being used to ship uranium and thus skirting the embargo of nuclear materials to Iran.   

"[....] U.S. intelligence official fear the flight is a shadowy way to move people and weapons to locations in Latin America that can be used as staging points for retaliatory attacks against the U.S. or its interests in the event Iranian nuclear sites are struck by U.S. or Israeli military forces.

"My understanding is that this flight not only goes from Caracas to Damascus to Tehran perhaps twice a month, but it also occasionally makes stops in Lebanon as well, and the passengers on that flight are not processed through normal Venezuelan immigrations or customs.

[...] flight typically leaves Tehran and stops at Damascus International Airport (DAM), which is Syria's busiest. In 2009, almost 4.5 million passengers used the airport.

[....] Upon arrival, the plane is met by special Venezuelan forces and sequestered from other arrivals.