{"id":53452,"date":"2020-05-24T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53452"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:10:46","slug":"iran-venezuela-hail-victorious-defiance-over-us-as-1st-tanker-is-escorted-by-maduro-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53452","title":{"rendered":"Iran & Venezuela Hail Victorious ‘Defiance’ Over US As 1st Tanker Is Escorted By Maduro Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran & Venezuela Hail Victorious ‘Defiance’ Over US As 1st Tanker Is Escorted By Maduro Forces<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first among five Iranian fuel-laden tankers has arrived in gasoline-starved Venezuela amid US threats to intervene against the ‘sanctions-busting’ activity by two official Washington enemies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters\u00a0reports<\/a>: “The tanker, named Fortune, reached the country\u2019s waters at around 7:40 p.m. local time<\/strong>\u00a0(1140 GMT) after passing north of the neighboring dual-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, according to vessel tracking data from Refinitiv Eikon.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple tanker tracking monitoring sites have confirmed the arrival of the ‘Fortune’ off Venezuela’s coast last Saturday.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maduro’s economy vice president and recently named oil minister celebrated on Twitter:  \u201cThe ships from the fraternal Islamic Republic of Iran are now in our exclusive economic zone,\u201d amid broader claims of ‘victory’ on state media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And per Reuters<\/a>: “Venezuelan state television showed images of a navy ship and aircraft preparing to meet it.”<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other trailing tankers are also expected to enter Venezuela’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), or within 200 miles of the coast, in the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Camila<\/strong>@camilateleSUR<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venezuela\u2019s Yekuaka PO13 Ocean Patroller rendezvoused with the 1st Iranian tanker \u201cFortune\u201d at 3pm on Saturday in international waters. This was the moment captured by @madeleintlSUR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iran’s IRGC-aligned\u00a0Tasnim media<\/em>\u00a0hailed the safe arrival of the first tanker as\u00a0\u201cA turning point for\u00a0Venezuela\u2019s sovereignty and independence,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0according to a state media report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past month Tehran and Caracas have become aggressively vocal in\u00a0touting their “brotherhood” and joint defiance of Trump administration sanctions<\/strong>, for which US officials have recently threatened response, including the possibility of military intervention against the vessels in the Caribbean. Trump months ago reportedly ordered more Navy ships to the area to crackdown against what was dubbed the Maduro regime’s alleged narcotrafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Iran<\/strong>@Iran<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First #Iran<\/a>-flagged tanker Fortune reached the #Venezuela<\/a> coasts while being escorted by the country\u2019s navy forces<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iran & Venezuela Hail Victorious ‘Defiance’ Over US As 1st Tanker Is Escorted By Maduro Forces The first among five Iranian fuel-laden tankers has arrived in gasoline-starved Venezuela amid US threats to intervene against the ‘sanctions-busting’ activity by two official Washington enemies.  Reuters\u00a0reports: “The tanker, named Fortune, reached the country\u2019s waters at around 7:40 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[441,2422,827,851,865],"class_list":["post-53452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53453,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions\/53453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}