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VENEZUELA and Russia were set to discuss responses to US fixing of the oil market in Tehran yesterday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin were due to meet in the Iranian capital to discuss stabilising oil prices — a matter of utmost interest to two of the world’s leading hydrocarbon exporters.
The meeting was due to take place on the sidelines of the one-day Gas Exporting Countries summit.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
