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2025-12-12 19:14
By staff writer
Piracy and pressure: US push against Venezuela
TEHRAN – The confrontation between the United States and Venezuela in late 2025 is not a sudden flare-up but the continuation of Washington’s long-standing pressure campaign.
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2025-12-10 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump’s psychological warfare over Venezuela’s skies
TEHRAN – The United States has intensified its pressure on Venezuela by sending two Navy F/A 18 fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela. Although the Pentagon described the maneuver as a routine training flight, the timing and proximity to Venezuelan airspace made it appear far from routine.
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2025-12-06 22:35
By M.A. Saki
Trump reverting to 1920s–30s ‘gunboat diplomacy’ in Venezuela: ex-CIA officer
'Military pressure on Venezuela sends this sense to the world that Trump’s US is imperialist'
TEHRAN – Paul Pillar, a former CIA officer and now a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, tells the Tehran Times that the Pentagon’s attacks on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, carried out under the claim that they are trafficking drugs to the United States, reflect President Donald Trump’s return to the “gunboat diplomacy” of the 1920s and 1930s, when U.S. military forces intervened in several Latin American countries.
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2025-12-02 19:14
By staff writer
Venezuelan voices vs. America’s cannons
TEHRAN – Venezuelans took to the streets in Caracas and other cities this week to protest escalating U.S. military pressure. The demonstrations follow the continued presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean and thousands of U.S. troops in the region. The U.S. has also carried out more than 20 strikes on maritime targets in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing over 80 people, actions that Caracas says go beyond anti-drug operations and threaten Venezuelan sovereignty.
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2025-11-30 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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2025-11-28 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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2025-11-12 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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2025-11-01 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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2025-10-25 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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2025-10-20 20:25
By Shahrokh Saei
Caribbean crisis: U.S. military actions fuel Latin American pushback
TEHRAN – The United States’ deadly attacks on vessels in Caribbean waters off Venezuela and Colombia, coupled with President Donald Trump’s escalating threats, have thrust the region into global attention. Since early September, nearly 30 people have been killed in strikes that the Trump administration claims are aimed at dismantling drug trafficking networks.
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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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2025-10-12 20:22
By Salman Parviz
Trump and Rubio gunning for regime change in Venezuela
Tehran, Beijing, Moscow slam U.S. military escalation
TEHRAN – At the request of the Venezuelan government, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Friday after U.S. military strikes on speed boats that have killed at least 21 people off Venezuela’s coast in a span of one month. Members of the UNSC voiced concern over escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela, calling for dialogue to settle disputes.
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2025-10-11 22:06
By Wesam Bahrani
Driven by Venezuela’s oil riches, Trump intensifies clash with Maduro government
TEHRAN – Tensions between Caracas and Washington are mounting amid the White House’s continued push for regime change in Venezuela.
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2025-09-30 14:47
Venezuela weighs emergency decree as Maduro warns of US aggression
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he is prepared to declare a state of emergency in response to what he called U.S. “aggression,” after deadly American strikes on small boats in international waters off Venezuela’s coast.
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2025/09/03
By Kleybergel González, Venezuelan journalist from FuserNews
Venezuela stands unyielding against US aggression: Sovereignty is non-negotiable
CARACAS – In recent weeks, the United States has intensified its policy of maximum military pressure against the government and people of Venezuela by sending eight warships and a nuclear submarine to Caribbean waters near the Venezuelan coast.
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2025-09-02 20:48
By Shahrokh Saei
US strategy in Venezuela stirs regional alarm, echoes Bolton’s coup revelations
TEHRAN – The recent deployment of United States military forces in the waters off Venezuela has reignited concerns over Washington’s long history of interventions and regime-change policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The move comes amid US claims that the deployment is intended to combat threats from regional drug cartels.
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2025-07-30 20:45
Pezeshkian, Maduro vow strategic deepening as allies mark 75 years of solidarity
TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro solidified their nations’ strategic alliance in a late Tuesday phone call, vowing to deepen cooperation across all sectors while condemning the recent Israeli campaign of aggression on Iranian sovereignty.
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2025-01-12 22:33
Iran congratulates Maduro on inauguration, pledges closer ties with Venezuela
TEHRAN – Iran has extended its congratulations to Nicolás Maduro on his inauguration as President of Venezuela for a third term, expressing hopes for stronger bilateral relations between the two nations.
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2024-08-06 22:18
Pezeshkian congratulates Venezuelan counterpart on election win
TEHRAN- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has congratulated his Venezuelan counterpart on his re-election win.
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2024-08-03 19:32
Maduro: Global Zionism behind Venezuela coup attempt
The far-right in Venezuela is supported and funded by global Zionism, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told Al Mayadeen, adding that the Zionist influence in the media and social media is behind the attempted coup in Venezuela.
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2024-08-02 19:38
Iran voices support for Venezuela’s election of Maduro’s government
TEHRAN- The spokesman of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the interference of the United States in the results of the presidential election in Venezuela.
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2023-06-13 16:17
Iran-Venezuela trade can reach $20b
TEHRAN- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the value of trade between Iran and Venezuela can be increased to $10 billion in the first step and to $20 billion in the second step.
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2022-09-07 22:02
Tehran following strategy to deepen ties with Latin America: Raisi
TEHRAN- President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday reiterated the Islamic Republic's objective to foster relations with nations in Latin America, particularly Venezuela.