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Monday, December 7, 2020

Iran sends Oil, Gas Flotilla to Venezuela; will Trump attack it to Sabotage Biden?

Iran sends Oil, Gas Flotilla to Venezuela; will Trump attack it to Sabotage Biden?: Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Bloomberg reports that a flotilla of ten Iranian vessels is heading for Venezuela. They have turned off their shipboard Automatic Identification System, or AIS, so that US signals intelligence cannot find them easily. The ships typically go around the Cape of Good Hope and then head northwest to Caracas. Will the militant Trump administration attempt to board these vessels and steal their oil, to provoke Iran again and interfere with the Biden team's plan to restore the 2015 nuclear deal? The Trump administration seized four Iranian oil tankers in the Caribbean in August and sold

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