An oil tanker is seen off the port of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran. (AFP) July 02, 2020 U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking to seize four tankers sailing toward Venezuela with gasoline supplied by Iran, the latest attempt to disrupt ever-closer trade ties between the two heavily sanctioned anti-American allies. The civil-forfeiture complaint filed [...]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, May 23, 2018. (Reuters) June 25, 2020 The US is sanctioning five Iranian ship captains who delivered about 1.5 million barrels of Iranian gasoline to Venezuela “in support of the illegitimate Maduro regime,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. “These captains assets with be blocked and they [...]
The food follows Iran’s recent flotilla of five tanker ships filled with gasoline sent to relieve Venezuela’s deep fuel shortages. (Reuters) June 22, 2020 Iranian officials said one of their cargo ships was expected to dock in Venezuela on Sunday with food to launch the first Iranian supermarket in the South American nation. [...]
The Golsan approached Caribbean waters Friday following a high-seas journey from Iran. (AFP) June 20, 2020 An Iranian cargo ship is expected to dock in Venezuela soon, an arrival that comes shortly after the Middle Eastern nation sent five tankers loaded with gasoline to relieve its fuel-starved South American ally, an analyst said [...]
An Airbus A340-600 airplane of Iran's Mahan Air is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas, April 8, 2019. (AP) June 15, 2020 A Colombian businessman indicted by U.S. authorities as the chief money launder for Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela has been detained in the African island archipelago of Cape Verde. Alex [...]
One of the Iranian vessels (right) is seen in international waters crossing the Gibraltar stretch on May 2020. (AFP) June 13, 2020 An Iranian news agency close to the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday Iran’s naval forces were preparing to target U.S. commercial vessels in the Gulf last month in case U.S. [...]
A flight carrying humanitarian aid for the COVID-19 epidemic had arrived from Iran, Venezuela’s government said. (AFP) June 9, 2020 Venezuela’s government said on Monday that a flight carrying humanitarian aid for the COVID-19 epidemic had arrived from Iran, which has become a crucial ally to the South American nation amid U.S. sanctions. Washington [...]
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. (AP) June 2, 2020 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he would visit Iran shortly to sign cooperation agreements in energy and other sectors, after Iran sent five fuel tankers to the gasoline-starved South American country. “I am obliged to go to personally thank the people,” Maduro said [...]
Iran foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi. (AFP) June 1, 2020 Iran will continue fuel shipments to Venezuela if Caracas requests more supplies, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday, despite Washington’s criticism of the trade between the two nations, which are both under U.S. sanctions. “Iran practises its free trade rights with [...]
A worker of the Venezuelan state oil company Pdvsa holds an Iranian flag during the arrival of the Iranian tanker ship Fortune at the El Palito refinery, Venezuela, on May 25, 2020. (Reuters) May 30, 2020 Seeking to deter further shipments of Iranian fuel to Venezuela, the Trump administration has quietly warned foreign [...]
