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U.S., Iran Approach Showdown Over Oil Tankers Headed for Venezuela
Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 22, 2020 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 05/23/2020 5:20:41 AM PDT by kevcol

Five Iranian oil tankers are currently making their way to Venezuela, where they intend to bust an economic blockade established by the Trump administration on President Nicolas Maduro
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Iranian military leaders said their oil tankers would reach the Caribbean in the coming days. In response, the U.S. Navy has already deployed several ships to the area.

Both Iran and Venezuela have threatened violence if the United States intercedes in the shipment. And while the Trump administration would not telegraph any actions it may be planning, U.S. officials made clear the United States does not intend to let Iran expand its malign influence into Latin America.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cuba; embargo; iran; navy; russia; venezuela
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To: Gen.Blather

Correct, but... Doesn’t Iran only have about half the refining capacity that they need to meet their own needs?

Granted that if Iran’s economy is in a shambles, maybe they don’t need so much refining capacity these days...


41 posted on 05/23/2020 6:15:53 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
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To: Vinnie

This is where you hire some Somali pirates...


42 posted on 05/23/2020 6:17:45 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
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To: dangus

Oil tankers headed FOR Venezuela. Let that sink in, liberals

**********

Nothing sinks in with them. They always have their ideological blinders on.


43 posted on 05/23/2020 6:18:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: rintintin

That’s funny. I’ve heard Pompeo go after China numerous times.


44 posted on 05/23/2020 6:18:40 AM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: bert

Subwoofers.


45 posted on 05/23/2020 6:19:34 AM PDT by OKSooner (Don't buy from China. Don't buy from Microsoft. Don't do Facebook. Tweet only enough to get banned.)
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To: sauropod

You think Pompeo can’t do two things at once?

All I know is what happened. While Peter Navarro was warning about Chinese virus, our Sec of a State was MIA, fixated on the Middle East and Venezuala - it’s the same old bush-Cheney-neocon playbook.


46 posted on 05/23/2020 6:22:02 AM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: McGruff

Thanks very much. This situation is going to get interesting.

I couldn’t help but take note of how quick Trump’s presser was yesterday. He was probably preoccupied with this and/or Hong Kong.


47 posted on 05/23/2020 6:22:50 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: kevcol

Here’s a scenario:

Iran places crude nuclear devices on oil tankers bound for Venezuela hoping the US will interdict and take the tankers to a US port.

BOOM!


48 posted on 05/23/2020 6:26:32 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: sauropod

When have you ever heard Pompeo give a press conference or a press release on the importance of building the wall and protecting America’s borders? I haven’t- ever. But he’s real big on building border walls in the Middle East.

When has he talked about the threat of the Mexican cartels right on our border? I’ve never heard him address it. But he can’t stop talking about Venezuala, much farther away

He’s a neocon retread, a Trump hiring mistake just less obnoxious than Bolton


49 posted on 05/23/2020 6:29:31 AM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: rintintin

Fallacious drivel


50 posted on 05/23/2020 6:33:00 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: bert

Let me guess. I bet you were a BIG supporter of invading Iraq


51 posted on 05/23/2020 6:39:36 AM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: mylife

Who is buying this heavy sulfur crude?

Heavy, suldur crude oil is the type of oil found in V as compared to the light crude found in the US and requires a special kind of processing which is what CITGO has the refinery in V to do.


52 posted on 05/23/2020 6:39:44 AM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: kevcol

Great. Free oil but Watch out for boobytrapped ships.


53 posted on 05/23/2020 6:40:48 AM PDT by Track9 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to ShiÂ’ite since 632 AD)
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To: Artemis Webb

I suspect the tankers will pass. There isn’t any justification under international law for the U.S. to intercept them.


54 posted on 05/23/2020 6:43:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Hell, give the Venezuelan navy a chance and another ship captain may sink himself!


55 posted on 05/23/2020 6:44:54 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: dangus

There was a joke in Communist Czechoslovakia: If the Communists seized the Sahara, there would be lack of sand in the Sahara.


56 posted on 05/23/2020 6:50:20 AM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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To: rintintin

I recall him talking about the Mexican government and the help they are or are not giving at a certain point in time.

I don’t care how many times you bleat ‘NEOCON’. What are you, a one-note Johnny like lurkinaloomin?

That’s not going to convince me.


57 posted on 05/23/2020 7:10:49 AM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: rintintin

Of course

However that is irrelevant to your misunderstanding or lack of understanding of dealing with Iran.

Although they are both “over there”, they are in fact different countries


58 posted on 05/23/2020 7:12:54 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: kevcol

Let the shipment be delivered.

Make Iran give US the money!

They can pay us in CASH!


59 posted on 05/23/2020 7:16:56 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: bert

I knew you were an Iraq war supporter, and now an Iran war booster

neocons never learn


60 posted on 05/23/2020 7:21:15 AM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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