U.S. seeks to seize gasoline in four Iran tankers bound for Venezuela

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U.S. prosecutors late on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to seize the gasoline aboard four tankers that Iran is shipping to Venezuela, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to increase economic pressure on the two U.S. foes.

FILE PHOTO: A worker of the state-oil company Pdvsa greets Venezuela's Oil Minister Tarek El Aissami during the arrival of the Iranian tanker ship"Fortune" at El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela May 25, 2020. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

In the civil-forfeiture complaint, U.S. federal prosecutors aim to stop delivery of Iranian gasoline aboard the Liberia-flagged Bella and the Bering, and the Pandi and the Luna, according to the lawsuit, first reported in the Wall Street Journal. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to deter future deliveries.

The lawsuit says that since September 2018, the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force has moved oil through a sanctioned shipping network involving dozens of ship managers, vessels and facilitators.Profits from the shipments support the “full range of nefarious activities, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, support for terrorism, and a variety of human rights abuses, at home and abroad,” the lawsuit said.

 

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US can not fight Iran in it's own backyard but Venezuela, and when did stupid people that looking for a fight with Iran will realise that it will always retaliate against any country including US

Don't seize them, take off the crew and sink them, bet they don't try it again.If they do sink the next batch with the crews.

now we’re doing 🏴‍☠️ Piracy the rule of law does not restrain this bogus government

The U.S is always happy to reaffirm its place as no.1 bully in the world.

Sometimes you find things in the most unlikely places

American Imperialism at it's finest.

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