Syria and Venezuela plotted in recent
years to evade international sanctions on Syria through a secret deal to transport
its crude oil through Russia to the Caribbean. The previously undisclosed plan
aimed to sell Syrian oil at a big discount to Venezuela through a Russian shell
company, which would send it to Aruba for refining and distribution to gas
stations in the U.S. and elsewhere, according to dozens of emails, documents
and interviews. The scheme, which hasn’t been executed, indicates the extent to
which the two pariah nations are willing to go to evade international rules and
antagonize global powers. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, written off
repeatedly during the past six years as hundreds of thousands of his citizens
have been killed in a brutal civil war, has clung firmly to power. More…
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