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Yesterday 22:31
Venezuela thanks Tehran for supporting Caracas
TEHRAN – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto has expressed his gratitude to Iran for backing the Latin American nation in the face of US military threats and pressure.
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Yesterday 18:59
By Shahrokh Saei
Law above the clouds: Caracas counters Washington’s illegal threats
TEHRAN – Venezuela has forcefully rejected recent threats from President Donald Trump to treat its skies as closed, arguing the United States has no legal authority to impose restrictions on another nation’s airspace. Officials in Caracas insist that the move is not only illegitimate but also a direct challenge to the principles of international law.
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2025-11-29 20:22
Trump's airspace closure directive escalates crisis around Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump declared the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela "closed in its entirety," a blunt Saturday Truth Social directive to "Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers" that offered no legal basis or operational details.
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2025-11-29 14:45
Execution of survivors under Hegseth’s ‘kill everybody’ order labeled a war crime
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months, according to The Independent.
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2025-11-28 17:51
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump’s Venezuela war drums: Drug fight or oil grab?
TEHRAN – The latest statements from President Donald Trump mark one of the most serious escalations in the long confrontation between the United States and Venezuela.
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2025-11-28 16:31
China urges U.S. to remove illegal, unilateral sanctions on Venezuela
China has called on the United States to lift its illegal and unilateral sanctions imposed on Venezuela and do more to facilitate peace, stability and development in Latin America and the Caribbean region, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily press briefing on Friday, Xinhua reported.
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2025-11-26 21:36
Iran once again condemns US military threats against Venezuela
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has once again denounced the United States’ military buildup in the Caribbean.
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2025-11-25 18:26
Venezuelan FM brands Israeli counterpart a ‘perpetrator of genocide’
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Iván Gil on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, branding him a “war criminal” and “perpetrator of genocide” who, he insisted, will eventually face international justice.
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2025-11-16 21:46
Venezuela appreciates Iran’s warning over consequences of US military threats
TEHRAN – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil Pinto has, in a message, thanked Iran for giving a warning over the consequences of the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and for Tehran’s support for Venezuela’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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2025-11-15 22:23
US aggression in Caribbean undermines international peace, says Tehran
TEHRAN – Iran has warned that the recent surge in US military activity across the Caribbean and Latin America threatens regional stability and undermines international peace, urging Washington to respect Venezuela’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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2025-11-15 15:51
Trump’s ‘Southern Spear’ gambit to escape a string of setbacks
TEHRAN – Donald Trump, in his second presidential term, continues to pursue the long-standing, overarching U.S. approach of bullying and advancing interests by force — but he now presents that policy in a blunt, unvarnished form.
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2025-11-14 20:20
By Batool Subeiti
Capitalist expansion and US intervention in Latin America
LONDON - The United States is going through a major economic crisis, which is why Trump talks about controlling places like Greenland or the Panama Canal, and makes threats of military action against the oil-rich Venezuela, and even talking about annexing Canada.
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2025-11-14 19:58
Poll: Americans oppose Trump's aggression against Venezuela
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published Friday found only 29% of Americans support using U.S. military force to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge — a striking public rebuke of an administration strategy that has already staged roughly 19–20 strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific and, by Reuters’ count, killed scores of people.
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2025-11-12 19:47
Photo: Ali Haddadi Asl
Tehran Times hosts Venezuelan envoy to expand bilateral cooperation
José Rafael Silva Aponte, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Iran, paid a visit to the Tehran Times and Mehr News Agency in Tehran on Tuesday. The delegation engaged in constructive discussions with Mehr Media Group CEO Dr. Mohammad-Mahdi Rahmati and Tehran Times Editor-in-Chief Mr. Mohammad Sarfi, with both sides emphasizing the expansion of media and journalistic cooperation between the two countries.
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2025-11-12 19:17
Venezuela launches new defense phase against U.S. provocations, says José Rafael Silva Aponte
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2025-11-12 19:17
Venezuelan government rejects international praise for Machado’s anti-national stance
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2025-11-12 19:14
UN data dismantle U.S. narrative on Venezuela’s role in drug trade
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2025-11-12 19:13
Imperialism cannot break Iran–Venezuela brotherhood, says Venezuelan ambassador
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2025-11-12 18:08
By Shahrokh Saei
Imperial ambitions at sea: U.S. military escalation against Venezuela
TEHRAN – The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean has marked a dangerous escalation in U.S. military activity and sharply heightened tensions with Venezuela.
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2025-11-05 20:11
By Elaheh Tahmasebi
Why Venezuela’s fate matters to Iran
TEHRAN – Could a U.S. attack on Venezuela serve as a prelude to a future strike against Iran? This is one of the most frequently asked questions in Iranian circles today regarding the fate of Caracas and the Maduro government.
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2025-11-01 20:23
‘Power play on Venezuela’s coast is about hegemony, not drugs:’ Analyst
Venezuelan analyst Diego Sequera told Iran’s Mehr News Agency that Washington’s latest maneuvers in and around Venezuela are not truly about the drug trade.
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2025-10-31 20:04
U.S. readies attacks on Venezuelan bases, ports, and airstrips, reports say
New reporting in the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald says the Trump administration “has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs,” and that Washington “has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela” — strikes that, the Herald wrote Friday, “could come at any moment.”
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2025-10-28 19:14
U.S. Navy's deadly Pacific blitz: 14 slain in 'narco' strikes, total tops 57
The U.S. military killed 14 people in three strikes in the eastern Pacific, an operation disclosed Tuesday on X by War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who labeled the slain “narco-terrorists.”
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2025-10-27 20:39
Venezuela warns of CIA false flag amid U.S. military drills in the Caribbean
In a statement on Monday, the Venezuelan government denounced U.S.-Southern Command–coordinated exercises with Trinidad and Tobago from October 26–30 as a hostile provocation that imperils stability across the Caribbean.
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2025-10-25 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
From cocaine to crude: Unmasking the U.S. agenda in Venezuela
TEHRAN – U.S. media reports have blown the lid off the White House’s plans for regime change in Venezuela, revealing flimsy excuses for possible military action that simply don’t hold water.
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2025-10-24 19:30
By Garsha Vazirian
Maritime strikes, mainland threats: U.S. military shadows Venezuela amid regime change whispers
TEHRAN – A concentrated U.S. military presence in the Caribbean — warships, patrol planes, MQ-9 drones, an F-35 squadron, and bomber flights — has sharply narrowed the political and diplomatic space around Venezuela.
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2025/10/22
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
The ironic enigma of the Nobel Peace Prize
TEHRAN – In the Eastern lands where I live and teach as a university professor, there is no doubt that Gandhi, Mandela, and their peers stand as emblems of peace — figures I hold up to my students and my children as exemplars to learn from.
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2025-10-17 21:23
Iran condemns US military moves near Venezuelan waters
TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has denounced an escalation of U.S. military moves in the vicinity of Venezuelan coasts as flagrant violation of the basic objectives and principles enshrined in the UN Charter, particularly the principle of not resorting or threatening to resort to force in intergovernmental relations.
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2025-10-17 17:58
Maduro blasts ‘open conspiracy’ as Trump confirms CIA directive to targeting Venezuela
Venezuela on Thursday stepped up its diplomatic push against Washington, formally asking the UN Security Council to declare recent U.S. strikes in the southern Caribbean illegal and to condemn what Caracas calls an unprecedented authorization for the CIA to carry out covert lethal operations against the country.
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2025/10/13
By Minoo Khaleghi
The Nobel Peace Prize has lost its meaning
Jurist and researcher in international relations
TEHRAN - The Nobel Prize, established under the will of Alfred Nobel in 1901, was meant to be awarded annually to “the person or organization that has done the most or the best work for the benefit of humanity” in relation to peace. Yet from the very beginning, the interpretation of its criteria has rested in the hands of the Norwegian Committee, and its decisions — especially in politically sensitive cases — have repeatedly stirred controversy.