In news from Cuba, Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban television Monday giving one of his first interviews since falling ill four years ago. The eighty-three-year-old former president warned the United States not to invade Iran. Castro said that any American attack on Iran would face much more resistance than the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Fidel Castro: “Iraq had no weapons. It was a country divided between Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis. None of those divisions exist in Iran. That will be tough. The worst thing will be the resistance they encounter. That is guaranteed, unlike in Iraq.”