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A woman holds a flashlight while walking with a man on a street during a blackout in Havana on March 16, 2026. (Yamil Lage/AFP)
March 17, 2026, 10:02 am
Trump says he will ‘free’ Cuba after US is finished with Iran
US president tells reporters Washington is in talks with Havana but says ‘I can do anything I want with it’ as the island nation reels from massive power cuts
By Agencies
This combination photo shows US President Donald Trump in a business roundtable in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2025, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo, Files)
March 10, 2026, 10:53 am
Trump, Putin talk of war and peace as US weighs easing Russian oil sanctions
Phone call comes hours after Kremlin warned US-Israeli conflict with Iran could trigger energy crisis, as closure of Strait of Hormuz disrupts oil supplies
By Guy Faulconbridge, Vladimir Soldatkin and Jarrett Renshaw
US Southern Command forces board the Venezuela-linked oil tanker Bertha in the Indian Ocean, February 24, 2026. (U.S. Department of War via X)
February 24, 2026, 7:12 pm
US forces board 3rd oil tanker in Indian Ocean, accused of trying to defy Iran sanctions
Southern Command says Venezuelan-linked Bertha, tracked from Caribbean, operated in defiance of Trump’s ‘quarantine of sanctioned vessels’
By Agencies
Brigadier Yahya Saree Qasim, the spokesman for Yemen's Houthis, gestures as he speaks during a protest to denounce US airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa on April 18, 2025. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)
July 22, 2025, 8:23 pm
US slaps Yemen’s Houthis with fresh sanctions targeting smuggling network
Measure aims to cut off key sources of revenue for the Iran-backed terror group, which regularly fires missiles and drones at Israel
By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
An Iranian military speedboat patrols the waters as a tanker prepares to dock at the oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
February 6, 2025, 8:23 pm
First new US sanctions under Trump target network delivering Iranian oil to China
Measures against alleged front company for Iranian military come after Trump signs order resuming ‘maximum pressure’ campaign, aimed at ‘driving Iran’s oil exports to zero’
By AFP
Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. (AP/Ernesto Vargas)
December 3, 2024, 6:56 pm
US deepens sanctions on Iranian oil as smuggling said to rake in billions for Tehran
US vows to keep targeting ‘shadow fleet’ facilitating petroleum trade; 500,000-750,000 metric tons of fuel oil diverted from Iraqi plants each month to benefit Iran, proxies
By Reuters
US President-elect Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, November 6, 2024. (Evan Vucci/AP)
November 6, 2024, 11:52 pm
Trump may restrict Iranian oil but China might not play along, analysts say
US president-elect says he believes in enforcing sanctions and then removing them, expected to ease clamps on Russian energy
By Reuters
Footage purportedly showing an explosion at Engels air base in Saratov, Russia, December 5, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 5, 2022, 4:18 pm
Blasts rock two Russian bases, one housing nuclear-capable bombers
Russian state media says 3 servicemen dead, plane damaged after fuel truck explodes in Ryazan; separate explosion at Engels air base, location of long-range craft
By Jamey Keaten
Picture shows Iranian supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar on August 15, 201 (Jorge Guerrero/AFP)
June 27, 2022, 8:25 am
Report: US brokering deal for Iran to send oil to Syria; Israel may give approval
Unsourced report says Jerusalem could agree to conditional easing of sanctions; 3 tankers said already on their way, having previously carried weapons from Iran to Syria, Hezbollah
By ToI Staff
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, speaks in a joint news briefing with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 11, 2022, 1:52 pm
Iran, Venezuela sign 20-year cooperation deal for defense, energy and finance
Maduro meets with Raisi in Tehran; 2 nations are subject to US sanctions; countries also set to cooperate in political, cultural, tourism, economic, oil and petrochemical fields
By AFP
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrives to deliver a speech to workers taking part in the rally to commemorate May Day in Caracas, on May 1, 2022. (Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)
May 3, 2022, 10:45 am
Iranian oil minister meets Venezuela’s Maduro for talks on ‘overcoming’ sanctions
Caracas meeting comes just weeks after a quiet visit by US officials in the midst of rising global oil prices due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
By AFP
Illustrative: Gas prices are shown on March 7, 2022, in Tumwater, Washington, as the cost of gasoline hit the highest price that American motorists have faced since July 2008. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
March 8, 2022, 7:58 pm
In latest steps against Russia, US and Europe target oil and gas imports
Biden announces US ban on all oil imports, UK says it will phase out such imports by end of 2022; EU plans two-thirds cut in Russian gas purchases this year
By Agencies
A child with the colors of the Iraqi flag on his face walks past a poster with Arabic that reads "leave us live in peace," during the ongoing protests in Tahrir square, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
January 13, 2020, 8:51 am
Iraq warns of ‘collapse’ as Trump threatens to block oil cash kept in Fed bank
Sources say US president has warned of sanctions that would immediately block 90% of Baghdad’s budget; Iraqi PM said ‘pissed,’ as official says Trump ‘politicizes everything’
By Maya Gebeily
In this June 19, 2019 photo, Taha Shakouri, an 8-year-old boy suffering from liver cancer, sits in his room at Mahak Children's Hospital in Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 30, 2019, 12:09 pm
Iranians say US sanctions blocking access to vital medicine
Cancer patients and victims of other debilitating diseases struggling as drug prices soar; Pompeo says restrictions proving ‘incredibly effective’ in curbing malign activities
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dedicates the final phase of a new oil refinery in the city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, February 18, 2019. (Official website photo)
May 19, 2019, 3:02 pm
Major oil producers meet to discuss output amid Iran tensions
OPEC members, as well as Russia and others, set to discuss how to stabilize market after reimposed US sanctions throw industry into uncertainty
By Omar Hasan
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