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Venezuela looks to Iran oil swap to ease sanctions pressure

The recent announcement that neighbouring Venezuela and Iran have struck what reports say is an ‘oil swap deal’ under which Iran will receive Venezuela’s heavy crude from the world’s single largest known oil reserves in exchange for condensate from the Islamic Republic, would appear to be the most recent example of the ongoing efforts of the administration of President Nicholas Maduro to seek to extricate his country from the protracted and socially and economically crippling United States embargo that continues to stifle the country’s oil exports.

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