This second tanker is not on a list of vessels sanctioned by the U.S., a source said.

This second tanker is not on a list of vessels sanctioned by the U.S., a source said.

Venezuela’s minister of the interior, Diosdado Cabello, condemned the operation in a Saturday post on Instagram.

“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces and rejects the theft and hijacking of a new private vessel transporting Venezuelan oil, as well as the forced disappearance of its crew, committed by military personnel of the United States of America in international waters,” Cabello said.

Saturday’s operation comes after the U.S. interdicted a large, sanctioned oil tanker known as the Skipper off the coast of Venezuela last week. The ship, previously identified by the Treasury Department as the Adisa, is an oil tanker tied to a sanctions-evading smuggling network that U.S. officials say moved Iranian oil to generate revenue for Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    https://www.openbible.info/topics/oil

    Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.

    You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

    And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.

    When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

    The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.

    Oh my god. This explains so much about US politics.