http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/158255/20110606/venezuela-iran-us-oil-sancti on.htm
June 6, 2011 3:36 PM EDT Venezuela has frozen its relations with the United States after Washington hit Venezuela's state-owned oil company with sanctions for providing gasoline to Iran, according to Press TV, the state-owned Iranian news network. Examiner.com said that Caracas "froze" relations with the US on Sunday, citing a top Venezuelan diplomat. According to reports, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro suggested that renewing relations with the US might be "impossible." In Late May, Washington punished Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for supplying Tehran with gasoline and other refined oil products. Under the sanctions, PDVSA cannot receive US government contracts nor get any export financing from the US. However, Venezuelan companies can still supply oil to U.S. private corporations. Maduro has condemned the sanctions as "illegal, abusive measures taken by this weak government of the United States." Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, who is also the chief of PDVSA, said Venezuela will continue to maintain relations with Iran. "This is a right we are not going to renounce," he said [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
