Trump’s Venezuelan delusion: Same foolish blueprint he plots for Iran

TEHRAN – In a move that exposes both his strategic shortsightedness and his penchant for delusional grandiosity, US President Donald Trump has announced plans to refill America’s depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve using Venezuelan oil. The scheme, which Trump has bizarrely described as a “gift from Venezuela to the American people,” reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of energy markets, infrastructure realities, and geopolitical dynamics—a dangerous combination that now threatens to be replicated in US policy toward Iran.