California University professor says fuel delivery to Venezuela is Iran’s right

TEHRAN - Ronnie Lipschutz, a professor at the University of California, has said that Iran and Venezuela are independent countries and that Tehran has right to ship fuel to Venezuela.

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Russia says sanctions for Iran oil supply to Venezuela are unacceptable

Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said on Thursday that threats hurled by the United States at other governments of imposing sanctions in case they facilitate supplies of Iranian oil to Venezuela are unacceptable.

Columnist calls Iranian fuel shipments to Venezuela a crack in wall of sanctions

TEHRAN - Conn Hallinan, a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus, has said that arrival of Iranian fuel tankers in Venezuelan waters was a crack in wall of the United States’ illegal sanctions against Caracas.

Last Iranian fuel tanker reaches Venezuelan waters

TEHRAN - The 5th and last Iranian fuel tanker reached Venezuelan waters on Sunday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Gholamreza Ansari has said.

Expert lauds shipments to Venezuela as ‘victory’ for Tehran

TEHRAN — An international relations expert has lauded the arrival of Iranian fuel tankers in Venezuela as a “victory” for Tehran, saying the shipments greatly help the people of Venezuela.

By Negar Asadi

Fuel delivery shows Iran’s geopolitical power: Venezuela ambassador

TEHRAN – Iran has demonstrated its “geopolitical power” and its ability to defy U.S. hegemony by sending fuel tankers to blockaded Venezuela, the Venezuelan ambassador to Iran says.

Expert calls Iranian oil tankers’ arrival in Venezuela a ‘political victory’

TEHRAN - Kourosh Ahmadi, an expert on international affairs, has called arrival of oil tankers in Venezuela a “political victory” for Iran.

By Payman Yazdani

Tehran signals its oil trade 'legitimate': Japanese expert

TEHRAN– Sachi Sakanashi believes that message of Iran's move to send oil tankers to Venezuela is that Tehran's oil trade is legitimate and the country is ready to send its oil even across the Atlantic Ocean when there is a customer.

Iran breaking shackles of U.S. sanctions: energy analyst

TEHRAN - Seyyed Saeed Mirtorabi Hosseini, an Iranian oil and gas analyst and a fellow scientist at Kharazmi University, has said that arrival of Iran’s oil tankers in Venezuela’s waters shows that the Iranian nation is breaking the shackles of United States’ sanctions.

U.S. sanctions have lost efficiency: Iranian diplomat

TEHRAN – Iranian Ambassador to Venezuela Hojat Soltani has said that the United States’ unilateral sanctions have lost their efficiency.

Third Iranian tanker reaches Venezuelan waters

TEHRAN — The third cargo of an Iranian tanker flotilla carrying fuel for Venezuela on Tuesday reached the nation’s exclusive economic zone as the previous two were discharging at state run PDVSA’s ports, Refinitiv Eikon data showed.

Iran shows it is capable of countering U.S.: ex-WH official

TEHRAN - Professor Frank N. von Hippel, former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, has said that Iran showed it is capable of countering the United States’ sanctions by delivering oil to Venezuela.

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Venezuelans welcome Iranian tanker

Venezuelans celebrated on Monday as the first of five Iranian gasoline tankers arrived in the country in defiance of U.S. threats. In this photo, a Venezuelan employee is kissing the Iranian flag.

Iranian tankers’ arrival in Venezuelan waters marks end to unipolar system: Zarif advisor

TEHRAN - Mehdi Sanaei, a top advisor to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Tuesday that arrival of Iranian oil tankers in the Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean is an end to a unipolar system.

Envoy lauds U.S. abstention from disrupting Iranian tankers

TEHRAN — Iranian Ambassador to Venezuela Hojatollah Soltani says the U.S. abstention form aggression against Iranian tankers showed that there’s still wisdom in the U.S. establishment.

Maduro says tankers symbolize Iran-Venezuela ‘courage and freedom’

TEHRAN – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has hailed the arrival of Iranian tankers to Venezuela amid U.S. threats.

By Payman Yazdani

Tehran's political, diplomatic move sends clear signal to world: Entessar

TEHRAN– Prof. Entessar says that Tehran's political and diplomatic moves sent a clear and unambiguous signal that maritime piracy is not only a challenge to the international legal order but it also threatens Iran's commercial and political rights as a sovereign nation-state.

‘U.S. sanctions on Venezuela broken by arrival of Iran’s oil tanker’

TEHRAN - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the Rai al-Youm website, has told Al Mayadeen TV channel that the U.S. President Donald Trump has suffered defeats as Washington’s sanctions on Venezuela have been broken by arrival of Iran’s oil tanker.

Cuban president: Iranian oil tanker arrival in Venezuela breaks U.S. ‘criminal blockade’

TEHRAN – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that arrival of Iranian oil tanker in Venezuela breaks the United States’ “unacceptable” and criminal blockade”.

In defiance of U.S. threats, first Iranian oil tanker reaches Venezuelan waters

In defiance of threats by Washington, the first of five Iranian oil tankers heading to Venezuela entered the country's waters.

Foreign Ministry summons Swiss ambassador

Zarif writes to UN chief, calls U.S. moves illegal, dangerous, threat to international peace  

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres late on Sunday warning about possible attempts by the U.S. to “disrupt” the movement of the Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela, warning such a move will be “illegal”, “dangerous”, “provocative”, “instance of piracy” and a “great danger to international peace and security”.

Envoy calls report on shipping gold bars from Venezuela to Iran ‘baseless’

TEHRAN — The Iranian ambassador to Caracas has rejected a recent report claiming shipping nine tons of gold bars from Venezuela to Iran as a “big lie” and a “baseless rumor”.

United States' carrot-stick policy on Venezuela doomed to failure 

The White House officials should avoid the already failed carrot-and-stick approach towards Caracas as the Venezuelans will never compromise their national interests and political fate under military pressures.

By Zahra Mirzafarjouyan

‘Russia, Iran, Venezuela can team up to confront U.S., SA triggered oil price war’

TEHRAN – Mehmet Ogutcu, Chairman of London Energy Club believes that while the USA, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf countries can work together in the coming period to influence the markets, Russia can team up with important OPEC producers such as Iran and Venezuela and assume the leadership of non-OPEC producers.

Venezuelan FM calls U.S. assassination of Gen. Soleimani ‘treacherous’

TEHRAN – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Tuesday that the United States’ assassination of Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was “treacherous” act.

Iranian president calls U.S. illegal sanctions crime against humanity

Rouhani: Trump just implementing Israeli policies

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the United States’ “illegal sanctions” against Iran and its plots against Venezuela are “crime against humanity”.

Gen. Soleimani will serve as inspiring source of resistance: Zarif

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani will be serving as an inspiring example for the resistance front.