{"id":37317,"date":"2025-12-11T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37317"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:19:01","slug":"us-seizes-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-seizes-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela-trump-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>BBC:<\/strong> US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington&#8217;s pressure campaign against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela &#8211; a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Releasing a video of the seizure, Attorney General Pam Bondi described the vessel as a &#8220;crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Caracas swiftly denounced the action, calling it an act of &#8220;international piracy&#8221;. Earlier, President Maduro declared that Venezuela would never become an &#8220;oil colony&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration accuses Venezuela of funnelling narcotics into the US and has intensified its efforts to pressure President Maduro in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela &#8211; home to some of the world&#8217;s largest proven oil reserves &#8211; has, in turn, accused Washington of seeking to take its oil.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices inched higher on Wednesday as news of the seizure stoked short-term supply concerns. Analysts warn the move could threaten shippers and further disrupt Venezuela&#8217;s oil exports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington&#8217;s pressure campaign against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government. &#8220;We have just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela &#8211; a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually,&#8221; Trump told reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37320,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317\/revisions\/37320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}