Foreign Minister Yván Gil held a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Seyed Abbas Araghchi. In the call they discussed the state of bilateral relations between both countries, the actions of the United States in the Caribbean and the recent seizures of sanctions vessels transporting Venezuelan crude oil, which he described as a “theft.”
The administration of Nicolás Maduro confirmed this Saturday the 20th that it had received from Iran an offer of cooperation “in all areas” to confront “piracy and international terrorism” from the United States, which maintains a military deployment in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Western Pacific.
This was reported by Foreign Minister Yván Gil in his account in the Telegram networkafter holding a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Seyed Abbas Araghchi. In the call they discussed the state of bilateral relations between both countries, the actions of the United States in the Caribbean and the recent seizures of sanctions vessels transporting Venezuelan crude oil, which he described as a “theft.”
The Venezuelan official reiterated in his message that the United States “seeks to impose through military force, violating the United Nations Charter and international law.”
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Last Tuesday, US President Donald Trump ordered a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, while saying that pressure through military operations will intensify until the country returns all the oil that he said belongs to the United States.
Nicolás Maduro has denounced that Trump’s actions are aimed at overthrowing him and taking control of the oil resources of the nation, which has the largest crude oil reserves in the world.
This Saturday the 20th, the United States would have seized another ship off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, according to three US officials reported to the Reuters agency. This seizure is in addition to that of the Skipper ship, which sailed under a false flag and was transporting Venezuelan crude oil.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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