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2020-05-29 Caribbean-Latin America

Fourth Iranian fuel tanker enters Venezuela

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-29 05:01|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Uh huh - US disrupts Iranian fuel deliveries to Venezuela, official says
The Trump administration halted scheduled Iranian fuel deliveries to Venezuela Wednesday by threatening sanctions on the ships carrying the cargo, according to U.S. officials.

Iran and Venezuela attempted to outmaneuver American sanctions by establishing a new oil partnership.

Two Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ships that "were en route to Venezuela carrying Iranian fuel, scrapped their deliveries after the U.S. threatened sanctions," a senior U.S. official told Fox News.

First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the ships were expected to arrive in Venezuela as the final delivery in a previously planned five-oil-tanker shipment, an effort that the Venezuelan regime has said is a partnership to thwart the American sanctions.

"The Iranian oil tankers arriving in Venezuela are nothing but a distraction from the real problems facing Maduro," a spokesperson from the State Department told Fox News. "These shipments will do nothing to help Venezuelans, they will only help prop up the former Maduro regime for a little while longer."

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said in a televised address: "We are two rebel revolutionary peoples that are never going to kneel before North American imperialism.”

But the Greek-owned ships would have been unable to access international banking and maritime insurance had they carried out the shipment.

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-29 08:21|| 2020-05-29 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Persians playing backgammon, Trump plays Kriegsspiel.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 08:30|| 2020-05-29 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Hit the commercial carrier's pocketbook. Just smart and hard diplomacy.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-05-29 13:03|| 2020-05-29 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 IIRC didn't the Iranians have a major problem with their refineries being unable (2007) to produce sufficient diesel / gasoline for their internal transportation sector? They were having to import diesel / gasoline: [Reuters in 2018] Iran inches closer to dream of gasoline independence
Did they fix it or is this kabuki?

Posted by magpie 2020-05-29 17:04|| 2020-05-29 17:04|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Noh

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 17:10|| 2020-05-29 17:10|| Front Page Top

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