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The oil
tanker ‘Clavel,’ the last of a five-tanker Iranian flotilla, has made it
to Venezuela’s shores to deliver much-needed gasoline.
The final delivery comes just three days after the previous cargo arrived.
The fifth oil tanker entered Venezuela's’s waters on Sunday, carrying
the last shipment of the more than 1.5 million barrels of fuel sent to
Venezuela by Iran.
Both nations are facing tough US sanctions, with Washington willing to
stop the Iranian lifeline that was meant to alleviate fuel shortages in
the Latin American country.
Earlier this week, Venezuela’s military escorted four other ships--the
‘Fortune,’ the ‘Forest,’ the ‘Faxon’ and the ‘Petunia’--through its
exclusive economic zone to their destination. The ‘Faxon’ was the
fourth to arrive at Puerto la Cruz on the country’s eastern coast on
Friday.
Despite Venezuela having vast oil reserves, its refining capacity has
been limited, and its energy crisis has only worsened amid sweeping US
sanctions. The restrictions dealt a painful blow to the republic’s oil
sector, which accounts for most of its budget revenues.
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