Thats exactly whats been happening.Prior to the gasoline shipments there had been virtually continuous flights of at least once a day by mahan air bringing in engineers/technicians and equipment to restart fuel refining at one of their main refineries.These shipments are just a stopgap until fuel production resumes in venezuela.
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With a high degree of confidence, we can say that an Iranian cargo vessel is en route to Venezuela with (what we believe to be) spare parts for repairing the country's refineries.
well things are getting wormed up
500 million is nothing. We are going to lose a lot of money when we exchange the gold to fiat currency in the black market. If we didn't refine the oil ourselves, then we make even less profit. We need to send more, a lot more.
We can't force them to buy gasoline. If they need more, maybe we can send them more gasoline. But I agree that 500 million dollars is not much for 5 tankers of gasoline. Particularly when you consider the distance from Iran to Venezuela. But again, we can't really take Pompeo's word for granted.
Assuming it was free which I don't believe so, that would be a very expensive message. Too expensive actually.
We are not exactly in our best economic times. Thanks to sanctions and that no one will do business with us. We cant afford to send expensive symbolic messages just for the sake of it. The message doesn't change anything. We are still sanctioned, and still, no one will do business with us. If Venezuela proves to be a valuable business partner, then I'm happy. But if it was some sort of power demonstration, it was a very expensive and ineffective one.
