'The end of Ramadan brings us the arrival of the Fortune ship, a sign of the solidarity of the Islamic people of Iran with Venezuela,' Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro tweeted on Sunday.
said his country will"never kneel" before the U.S.praised Iran for sending a convoy of five tankers, carrying about 1.5 million barrels of gasoline, the first of which entered Venezuela's exclusive economic zone on Saturday while under military escort.said Venezuela and Iran are"two revolutionary peoples who will never kneel down before North American imperialism" and they should have the right to trade—despite U.S.
Venezuela is currently suffering a shortage of refined fuel and has been forced to rely on imports, which are limited by U.S. sanctions, the BBC reported., the first of five tankers sent by Tehran—named Fortune—arrived in Venezuelan waters at roughly 7:40 p.m. local time on Saturday. Today, Iran's embassy in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, confirmed a second Iranian tanker—named Forest—had also reached Venezuelan territorial waters.
It tweeted:"Upon arrival in the exclusive economic zone of Venezuela, escorted by a military patrol, [the tanker] heads towards one of the ports," Three remaining vessels en route to the South American nation are titled Petunia,"The end of Ramadan brings us the arrival of the Fortune ship, a sign of the solidarity of the Islamic people of Iran with Venezuela,"tweeted Sunday, alongside multiple images of a vast oil tanker that were taken from an escorting airship.
El final del Ramadán nos trae la llegada del buque FORTUNE, muestra de la solidaridad del pueblo islámico de Irán con Venezuela. En tiempos donde el imperio supremacista pretende imponer por la fuerza su dominio, solo la hermandad de los pueblos libres nos salvará.
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