TEHRAN, May 21 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi calls on foreign sides to respect the vote of the Venezuelan people in the country's presidential election and support the establishment of political stability and economic development in Caracas.
TEHRAN, May 18 - The United States is worried about the safety of U.S. citizens held in Venezuela after a riot at a prison there on Wednesday and has appealed again for the release of Mormon missionary Joshua Holt, the State Department said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 16 - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday dismissed the threat of new sanctions following an early election called for Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 7 - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is set to announce new sanctions on Venezuela in a speech to the Organization of American States on Monday, an aide to Pence said.
TEHRAN, May 4 - Venezuela has arrested the president of Banesco, the country's leading private bank, along with 10 executives on suspicion of "attacks" on the local currency, the country's top prosecutor said Thursday.
TEHRAN, April 07 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Arreaza Montserrat, held talks on various issues, including ways to boost the relations between the two countries.
TEHRAN, April 01 -Venezuelan authorities have arrested five state police officials for their suspected role in a recent incident at a prison facility in which 68 people died.
TEHRAN, March 29 - At least 68 people have lost their lives in a riot and a subsequent fire in the cells of a police station in Venezuela’s northern city of Valencia, the country’s attorney general has announced.
TEHRAN, March 23 - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday he would re-value the crisis-wracked country's bolivar currency, cutting three zeroes from current values to combat hyperinflation.
TEHRAN, March 18 -At each other’s throats for two decades, militants of Venezuela’s socialist state and opposition seldom agree on anything. Yet mention the name of presidential candidate Henri Falcon, and both are liable to spit.
TEHRAN, March 7 - The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday that crimes against humanity may have been committed in Venezuela and voiced alarm at "the erosion of democratic institutions" in the Andean nation.
TEHRAN, March 1 - The Trump administration is considering sanctioning a Venezuelan military-run oil services company and restricting insurance coverage for Venezuelan oil shipments to ratchet up pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, February 21 -President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that Venezuela had received $735 million in the first day of a pre-sale of the country’s “petro” cryptocurrency, aimed at pulling the country out of an economic tailspin.
TEHRAN, February 20-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has challenged US President Donald Trump to arrange dialog between their two countries, which have had increasingly adversarial relations in the recent past.
TEHRAN, February 3 - Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party has approved incumbent President Nicolas Maduro as its candidate to run for re-election in the upcoming presidential poll in April.
TEHRAN, February 3 - Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party has approved incumbent President Nicolas Maduro as its candidate to run for re-election in the upcoming presidential poll in April.