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Today 11:26
By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela, Russia, and the return of nuclear signaling
How a distant crisis exposes the fractures of the global order
GOA - At a time when global discourse is saturated with managed outrage and selective morality, certain crises are rendered invisible not because they lack consequence, but because they expose uncomfortable truths about power. Venezuela is one such crisis. Rarely discussed beyond caricatures of authoritarianism or economic failure, it has now re-entered the global stage in a far more unsettling form — as a strategic fault line in an intensifying confrontation between imperial persistence and geopolitical resistance.
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Yesterday 22:13
‘Illegal and coercive’, FM Araghchi condemns US actions against Venezuela
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has reiterated Tehran’s firm opposition to any action that threatens Venezuela’s sovereignty or territorial integrity, saying he is confident the country will safeguard its independence in the face of external pressure.
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Yesterday 16:11
US conducts 30th lethal strike on alleged ‘drug vessel’
The U.S. military said Monday it killed two alleged “drug smugglers” in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific, but—as with 30 similar attacks—offered no verifiable evidence.
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2025-12-24 22:17
‘Maritime piracy in Caribbean’, Iranian MPs condemn US military actions near Venezuela
TEHRAN – A group of 150 Iranian lawmakers has issued a strong condemnation of recent U.S. actions in the Caribbean, including the interception and pursuit of oil tankers, calling them acts of maritime piracy and a significant threat to regional stability.
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2025/12/24
Maduro says defending Venezuela today is defending peace, law
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has sent a letter to heads of state across Latin America and the Caribbean, denouncing an escalation of U.S. acts of aggression against Venezuela and warning that the actions pose serious risks to regional stability.
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2025-12-24 14:07
U.S. Republicans fear Venezuela ‘regime change’ could backfire as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro
Republican lawmakers are divided over whether President Trump should escalate military pressure on Venezuela to oust President Nicolás Maduro, with some Republicans warning that “regime change” has a history of backfiring on the United States, The Hill reported.
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2025-12-23 16:41
The warmongers are working overtime
TEHRAN – The world once again stands before an age-old question wearing a new face: Has the United States entered a new phase of warmongering and direct power projection?
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2025-12-22 15:12
Venezuela hits 1.2 million barrel oil target despite U.S. pressure
Venezuela has reached its goal of producing 1.2 million barrels of crude oil per day this year, despite intensifying U.S. pressure and tanker seizures, said Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
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2025-12-21 21:16
Araghchi highlights resilience of Venezuela in face of U.S. interventions
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has strongly condemned the United States’ coercive approach toward Venezuela and other independent developing countries in the Western Hemisphere.
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2025-12-21 21:14
By Martin Love
The Unites States of extreme folly is a fact?
Giving the Zionists $33 billion in the past two years has been insane
NORTH CAROLINA - I write from the realm of average Americans of conscience. I write from the world of Americans who live in what is recognizably a grotesque and a widening dystopia that week by week just seems to get worse as the USA under President Donald J. Trump and most of the US Congress inch (if not plunge) the country towards a "failed state" status that seems already to exist in many ways.
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2025-12-21 17:49
Second oil tanker taken: U.S. escalates Venezuela pressure
TEHRAN – The U.S. seizure of a second Venezuelan oil tanker, Centuries, underscores a clear strategy: Washington is leveraging military power to control Venezuela’s primary source of revenue. Coming just weeks after the first tanker, Skipper, was taken, the operation signals that the Trump administration’s so-called “blockade” is more than sanctions enforcement—it is a forceful effort to weaken Venezuela’s economy and pressure its government.
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2025/12/20
By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela and the panic of empire: The return of class war
GOA - When Venezuela’s socialists declare their determination to resist U.S. aggression, they are not issuing a symbolic slogan. They are naming a structural conflict at the heart of the modern world: imperial capitalism versus popular sovereignty. What Donald Trump and the U.S. ruling class dismiss as an “easy target” is in fact a frontline society where the deepest contradictions of global capitalism are exposed — and therefore most feared.
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2025-12-19 19:08
Machado’s Nobel win facilitates war crimes and plunder, Julian Assange argues
The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, according to an explosive legal brief filed by Julian Assange.
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2025-12-19 18:38
Trump threatens military aggression against Venezuela despite American public opposition
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to rule out a military invasion of Venezuela, asserting his objectives are clear to President Nicolás Maduro.
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2025-12-19 15:51
Pirates of the 21st century
TEHRAN – “The essence of America is bullying, plundering the resources of other countries, and betraying its allies.” This proposition stands as one of the most vital pillars of the order currently dominating international affairs.
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2025-12-17 19:21
By staff writer
From sanctions to blockade: Trump’s naval coercion of Venezuela
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers marks one of the most dangerous escalations in Washington–Caracas relations. While the Trump administration presents the move as a sanctions enforcement action, the reality is far more serious: the use of military force to control another country’s trade, outside international law and without global consent.
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2025-12-12 21:49
‘This is piracy’: Iran condemns US seizure of oil tanker off Venezuelan coast
TEHRAN – Iran has roundly condemned the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela by U.S. forces.
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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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2025-12-12 17:40
Top admiral forced out as U.S. escalates military aggression in the Caribbean
The admiral in charge of U.S. military forces in Latin America will retire two years early on Friday, amid rising tensions with Venezuela that include Wednesday's seizure of an oil tanker and more than 20 deadly strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats, Reuters reported.
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2025-12-10 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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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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2025-12-09 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.