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Iran’s 4th Fuel Tanker Nears Venezuelan Waters
Iran’s fourth tanker full of gasoline has entered the Caribbean and is close to the Venezuelan territorial waters.
Venezuelan armed forces are due to escort the tanker, Faxon, en route to its destination, as in the case of its three predecessors.
The five-tanker Iranian-flagged flotilla is carrying up to 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and components to help the country ease an acute scarcity that has forced Venezuelans to wait for hours in lines at service stations.
As Faxon was navigating through the Caribbean Sea, the third vessel of the flotilla, the Petunia, was approaching El Palito refinery, where the first vessel, the Fortune, docked on Monday.
The second cargo, on the vessel Forest, has been discharging at the Cardon refinery since Tuesday.
As the Iranian tankers deliver their cargos one by one, the Venezuelan government has started preparations to distribute the imported fuel among desperate citizens stranded in long gas station queues.
The fifth and final Iranian vessel is also on its way through the Atlantic Ocean to deliver fuel to the country under US sanctions and opposition.
Reuters had quoted a senior official in President Donald Trump’s administration as saying earlier this month that the United States is considering measures it could take in response to Iran’s shipment of fuel to Venezuela.
On Saturday, President Rouhani said his country is always entitled to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and warned that if his country’s oil tankers in the Caribbean or anywhere in the world get into trouble by the Americans, Tehran will definitely retaliate.
“Although some of the US measures have created unacceptable conditions in different parts of the world, we will not be the initiator of tension and clash,” Rouhani said in a phone call with the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Referring to the American moves in the Caribbean, he reiterated, “If our oil tankers face problems in the Caribbean Sea or anywhere in the world by the Americans, they will face problems reciprocally.”
We see the conditions today more apt for cooperation, especially given the outbreak of this disease; but the US continues its incorrect decisions and inhumane behaviors, the president noted.
He made it clear, “As before, we stress that the security of our region, particularly the marine security, is maintained by the regional countries and we have always announced that we are ready for cooperation with the neighboring countries.”
The Qatari Emir, for his part, underlined that the regional security should be maintained by the countries in the region and they should cooperate with each other to secure waterways in the region.
Hamad Al Thani also added that his country will try to deescalate tension.
Also, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri on Friday warned Washington of the dire repercussions of any hostile move against Iran’s interests, vowing that Tehran would not hesitate to strike back in case it is targeted by the US.
Bagheri noted Iran’s right to free shipment in the high seas, and stressed that the armed forces are constantly monitoring every small move of the enemies, including the adventurous, terrorist and antihuman American army in the region and faraway lands.
“We stand firm and decided to give the US an appropriate response for any miscalculation against the national interests of Iran,” the top commander stressed, in a stern warning to the US to avoid any hostile move aganst five Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela.
Venezuela’s defense minister said last Wednesday that planes and ships from the nation’s armed forces will escort Iranian tankers arriving with fuel to the gasoline-starved country to prevent any US aggression.
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said Venezuela’s navy and air force will welcome the five Iranian tankers, seeing them through the nation’s maritime territory and into port.
He compared the fuel tankers to humanitarian aid that China and Russia have sent to help Venezuela combat the new coronavirus pandemic.
Meantime, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami warned the US against any hostile move or trouble-making for the country’s oil tankers in international waters.
“Troubling the oil tankers is a violation of international laws and security. Both international organizations and countries which are sensitive to the laws and waterways’ security should certainly show reaction to such an act,” General Hatami told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran last Wednesday.
He described any possible US trouble-making for the Iranian tankers in the free waters as “piracy”.
“Of course, our policy is fully clear and we have clearly announced that we will not tolerate any disturbance. The Americans and others know that we certainly do not hesitate to react to any such move and if the disturbances increase and continue, they will certainly face a firm response,” General Hatami said.
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from when americans are clearly the real axis of terror, with israHELL and Uk in first stage, then there are tens of western nations, “allies” of them to stage whatever they ask to do, no matter of international rules which are good only if functional to american interests, in different way international rules are EVER broken (see hundreds of criminal actions perpetrated by the real axis of terror from tens of years.
Serbia, kosovo, ukronazi coup in 2014, attacks of Yemen with spread of covid to civilian people in Yemen (an heroic people which deserve help from wherever but the threats of saudis, zionists, ammerrecans and their “allies”) (or better, proxies!!), Lybian attack on piracy manners, Syrian project where americans openly support ISIS and ALQAEDA and ONU making NOTHING!!!, then the new Vietnam of Afghanistan and the 9/11 mother of all false flag ops where american people despite tons of evidences must take governments explanations as the real outcome of the event….(the mainstream broken all the rules of decency and are now become an asset of the cabal which try to rule the whole world. Despite Usa are imploding, dollar is imploding, but deep state is the wounded tiger which try to make the “all-in!!!” to not fall in the black hole where deserve to go forever…..
..excuse-me for little english
This operation was obviously designed to fail. What covert operator carries his military ID on a mission? Like the Bay of Pigs fiasco, it was meant to draw the US into invading with air support, the works. That it didn’t happen is testimony to the cross-purposes at work in the US Deep State, just as there was during the Kennedy administration when he prevented follow-up air support to the CIA-led invasion of Cuba. Ultimately, he signed his own death certificate by doing that.
Trump is just an organ-grinder’s monkey in this whole affair. It remains to be seen once those oil tankers all reach port if the Israelis, who really call the shots in the Trump administration, don’t stage a false-flag attack on those ships via sabotage or whatever. That will bring the Iranians and the Russians into it and war will only be averted by their restraint and common sense, not by anything that Trump does or doesn’t do.
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