Iranian News Agency Warns U.S.
A ship left Iran en route to Venezuela. It’s carrying a shipment of fuel. Both Iran and Venezuela are subject to U.S. sanctions. President Trump will be receiving options on how to respond to this shipment. For its part, the Iranian News Agency is warning the US to “not act like pirates”.
From Newsmax:
At least one tanker carrying fuel loaded at an Iranian port has set sail for Venezuela, according to vessel tracking data from Refinitiv Eikon on Wednesday, which could help ease an acute scarcity of gasoline in the South American country.
“Venezuela and Iran are both independent states that have had and will continue to have trade relations with each other,” Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei was quoted as saying by the YJC news website, linked to Iran’s state broadcaster.
“We sell goods and buy goods in return. This trade has nothing to do with anyone else,” Rabiei said, adding that he had no information about the Venezuela-bound vessel.
The Iran-flagged medium tanker Clavel passed the Suez Canal on Wednesday after loading fuel at the end of March at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port, according to the data.
“News received from informed sources indicate that the U.S. Navy has sent four warships and a Boeing P-8 Poseidon from the VP-26 squadron to the Caribbean region,” Nour said.
Venezuela is in an economic bind right now. They could get the U.S. sanctions lifted if they meet U.S. requirements first. Newsmax has the whole article here.
Category: Iran
They will probably sink it without any help from us….
Smoking lamp still lit?
Hookah…!!!
Nice tanker you have there, Ali. Be a real shame if something were to happen to it.
Didn’t Venezuela have a booming oil industry until the Socialist tyrants took over? The irony of importing oil while sitting on vast reserves obviously escapes them.
What will the Iranians do, sink it themselves?
Previously: An Iranian corvette sunk by friendly Iranian missile…
Previously: A Venezuelan frigate sunk after attempting to ram a civilian cruise ship…
Prediction: The Venezuelan frigate sent to escort the Iranian tanker Into port will probably collide with it and both will sink…
Wonder if the tanker will be escorted by their wooden aircraft carrier? Or perhaps a squadron of their 5th Generation fighters, hmm?
Whatever, we know its long voyage will be watched over by their global satellite system.
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Don’t act like pirates, they say.
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Arrrrr!
https://youtu.be/fNaQS3vDQc4
The US has charged Maduro with drug trafficking, narco-terrorism, money laundering and corruption, along with 11 other Venezuelan officials.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52053799
Venezuela/Maduro is also allowing Colombian criminals to use the country as a hiding place. Maduro is as incompetent as you can get. Venezuela had a thriving oil industry, which has gone to pieces. If that weren’t the case, Iran would not be making this trip.
Crazy they don’t have any mo-gas
They have like the largest oil reserves on the planet
Too bad that they will most likely miss going through the Bermuda Triangle.
That depends which course they take after transiting the Straight of Hormuz. If they get that far.
Com’on, Airdale, it’s “Straits”.
(and here I thought you were the edumacated one)
(you could always blame it on spell-no-check)
We need to cut him a little slack Tox, think he was making rather merry on evening past with The Mrs AW1Ed…or fine tuning his beach volleyball game. Coulda been up late waiting on the “done” button popping up on a cooking goose. Possibly working on a 1970s mid to compact sized Ford product named for an old school air to air explosive device. One never knows.
I figured with our advanced Navy, they could do an over-the-horizon, low flying missile.
“Dead men tell no tales”
What kind of impact would a 500lb concrete chunk make on a tanker? Something aerodynamically shaped, as in iron-bomb shaped. Dropped from 20k feet AGL… no serial numbers, no NSN…
Be a real shame if they were to hit an old Russian, Nork, or WWII leftover floating mine…