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Yesterday 21:10
U.S. deployment of warships to Caribbean violates international law: Iran President
TEHRAN – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has dismissed Washington’s deployment of warships to the Caribbean as a threat to international peace and security.
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Yesterday 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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2025-12-09 22:20
Trump 'only interested' in Venezuela's oil: analyst
'Invoking the term “Monroe Doctrine” by the current regime has a certain element of populist appeal among the isolationist-leaning electorate'
TEHRAN – Yuram Abdullah Weiler, an engineer-turned political analyst, argues that U.S. President Donald Trump’s intense pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stems from a desire to dominate the country and secure access to its vast oil reserves, which surpass those of Saudi Arabia.
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2025-12-07 21:52
MPs denounce 'terroristic' US threats in discussions with Venezuelan envoy
Ambassador says Iran and Venezuela share the same enemy
TEHRAN – A group of Iranian parliamentarians have denounced the United States’ escalating threats against Venezuela.
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2025-12-07 20:10
By staff writer
Caribbean chessboard: U.S. move to check Russia and China
Is the U.S. effort to overthrow Maduro limited to Venezuela?
TEHRAN – When U.S. forces began striking vessels in the Caribbean in early September, Washington said it was fighting drug cartels. Yet almost 90 people have been killed, no narcotics have been shown as evidence, and the scale of deployment, including the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, makes clear this is not a routine mission.
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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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2025/12/06
By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela after the vote: democracy, deterrence, the geopolitics of oil
“Those who preach democracy to Venezuela spent twenty years undermining its right to breathe.”
GOA, India - Six months have passed since Venezuela concluded its national elections, yet Western capitals continue to behave as though the ballots were still being counted. Their critiques, statements, and carefully staged condemnations have not diminished; if anything, they have intensified.
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2025-12-05 18:58
U.S. kills four more in Pacific strike as Pentagon war-crime controversy intensifies
The U.S. military destroyed another suspected narcotics vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing all four men aboard in the 22nd such lethal operation since September.
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2025-12-03 20:14
By M.A. Saki
Trump’s Venezuela policy could turn world into jungle, professor warns
“The international safeguards are crumbling”
TEHRAN – An American professor of international affairs warns that the world is sliding into a “veritable jungle” as U.S. President Donald Trump openly threatens to strike deep inside Venezuela, alleging the Latin American nation is engaged in narco-trafficking.
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2025/12/02
By Ranjan Solomon
US–Maduro head-on: oil, hegemony, and the future of sovereignty
GOA, India - The confrontation between the United States and Nicolás Maduro is one of the most revealing geopolitical conflicts of our time. It is not a clash of democratic ideals versus authoritarianism, as Washington tirelessly claims. It is not a moral crusade to rescue Venezuela from misrule, nor a humanitarian duty to “restore democracy.”
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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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2025-12-01 21:34
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Bully politics: The American style
Trump calls Maduro, tells him to step down and leave Venezuela or get attacked
TEHRAN – American commentators trying to make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s governing style say he is not mentally intact or that he has an unstable personality easily swayed by the last person he speaks to.
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2025-12-01 14:55
Venezuela: Next stop in the campaign to topple sovereign nations
TEHRAN – “The people of South America—in Venezuela and the other countries of the region—are profoundly calm by nature and deeply averse to tension and confrontation.”
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2025-11-30 22:31
Venezuela thanks Tehran for supporting Caracas
TEHRAN – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto has expressed his gratitude to Iran for backing the Latin American nation in the face of US military threats and pressure.
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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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2025-11-29 20:22
Trump's airspace closure directive escalates crisis around Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump declared the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela "closed in its entirety," a blunt Saturday Truth Social directive to "Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers" that offered no legal basis or operational details.
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2025-11-29 14:45
Execution of survivors under Hegseth’s ‘kill everybody’ order labeled a war crime
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months, according to The Independent.
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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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2025-11-28 16:31
China urges U.S. to remove illegal, unilateral sanctions on Venezuela
China has called on the United States to lift its illegal and unilateral sanctions imposed on Venezuela and do more to facilitate peace, stability and development in Latin America and the Caribbean region, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily press briefing on Friday, Xinhua reported.
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2025-11-26 21:36
Iran once again condemns US military threats against Venezuela
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has once again denounced the United States’ military buildup in the Caribbean.
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2025-11-25 18:26
Venezuelan FM brands Israeli counterpart a ‘perpetrator of genocide’
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Iván Gil on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, branding him a “war criminal” and “perpetrator of genocide” who, he insisted, will eventually face international justice.
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2025-11-16 21:46
Venezuela appreciates Iran’s warning over consequences of US military threats
TEHRAN – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil Pinto has, in a message, thanked Iran for giving a warning over the consequences of the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and for Tehran’s support for Venezuela’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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2025-11-15 22:23
US aggression in Caribbean undermines international peace, says Tehran
TEHRAN – Iran has warned that the recent surge in US military activity across the Caribbean and Latin America threatens regional stability and undermines international peace, urging Washington to respect Venezuela’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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2025-11-15 15:51
Trump’s ‘Southern Spear’ gambit to escape a string of setbacks
TEHRAN – Donald Trump, in his second presidential term, continues to pursue the long-standing, overarching U.S. approach of bullying and advancing interests by force — but he now presents that policy in a blunt, unvarnished form.
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2025-11-14 20:20
By Batool Subeiti
Capitalist expansion and US intervention in Latin America
LONDON - The United States is going through a major economic crisis, which is why Trump talks about controlling places like Greenland or the Panama Canal, and makes threats of military action against the oil-rich Venezuela, and even talking about annexing Canada.
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2025-11-14 19:58
Poll: Americans oppose Trump's aggression against Venezuela
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published Friday found only 29% of Americans support using U.S. military force to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge — a striking public rebuke of an administration strategy that has already staged roughly 19–20 strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific and, by Reuters’ count, killed scores of people.
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2025-11-12 19:47
Photo: Ali Haddadi Asl
Tehran Times hosts Venezuelan envoy to expand bilateral cooperation
José Rafael Silva Aponte, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Iran, paid a visit to the Tehran Times and Mehr News Agency in Tehran on Tuesday. The delegation engaged in constructive discussions with Mehr Media Group CEO Dr. Mohammad-Mahdi Rahmati and Tehran Times Editor-in-Chief Mr. Mohammad Sarfi, with both sides emphasizing the expansion of media and journalistic cooperation between the two countries.
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2025-11-12 19:17
Venezuela launches new defense phase against U.S. provocations, says José Rafael Silva Aponte
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2025-11-12 19:17
Venezuelan government rejects international praise for Machado’s anti-national stance
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2025-11-12 19:14
UN data dismantle U.S. narrative on Venezuela’s role in drug trade