Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) bumping elbows with Iran's FM Javad Zarif (L) at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Nov 5, 2020. (AFP) November 25, 2020 A top religious leader in Venezuela is warning the public about Iran’s increasing presence in his country, calling the alliance between the two nations a “disaster” intended for “geopolitical [...]
An Iranian oil vessel (right) is seen in international waters crossing the Gibraltar stretch on May 20. (AFP) By Marianna Parraga, Rinat Sagdiev and Parisa Hafezi November 10, 2020 On Aug. 21, a tanker called the Otoman docked at the Jose oil terminal on Venezuela’s coast in the Caribbean to load 1.82 million barrels [...]
Iranian missiles are loaded into launch position via a newly unveiled ballistic missile launch system in footage shared on November 4. (IRAN MILITARY) By Emanuele Ottolenghi November 10, 2020 Is Iran escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas by delivering advanced weapons systems to Venezuela? In August, Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro said that buying Iranian missiles was [...]
Photo shows an Iranian "missile city" in an unknown location in Iran. January 14, 2020. (Tasnim) By Benjamin Weil November 6, 2020 Now that Election Day is behind us, the president will need to allocate more time towards addressing overseas developments. One such development is Iran's plan to smuggle ICBMs into Venezuela. Those missiles [...]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Caracas, July 20, 2019. (REUTERS) November 05, 2020 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in Venezuela at the start of a Latin American tour that will also take him to Cuba and Bolivia. "Every high-level visit deepens our strategic [...]
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. (AP) November 04, 2020 Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in Venezuela for the start of a tour of Latin America, Venezuela’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, amid intense efforts by Washington to limit Iran’s influence in the western hemisphere. Zarif is also scheduled to [...]
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh in Tehran, 5 October 2020. (Anadolu) October 30, 2020 Iran accused the United States on Friday of acting like the “Pirates of the Caribbean” after Washington said it had sold off Iranian crude oil shipments that it seized on their way to Venezuela. Washington said on Thursday [...]
Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. (AP) October 30, 2020 The Trump administration plans to use proceeds from the sale of fuel confiscated from Iranian tankers to benefit victims of terrorism, officials announced Thursday. The US military in [...]
U.S. Department of Justice headquarters, August 12, 2006. (AP) October 29, 2020 The Justice Department today announced the filing of a complaint to forfeit two shipments of Iranian missiles that the U.S. Navy seized in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen, as well as the sale [...]
Qeshm Fars Air, an Iranian civil aviation company, is suspected of smuggling arms into Syria. (Supplied) October 28, 2020 An Iranian plane owned by a company sanctioned by the United States for allegedly shipping weapons to Syria landed in Venezuela on Tuesday, according to an opposition Venezuelan lawmaker and flight tracking data. The [...]
