The Wall Street Journal | Kejal Vyas & Benoit Faucon: The first of five tankers carrying Iranian fuel has reached gasoline-starved Venezuela in a show of defiance by two U.S. adversaries flouting American sanctions aimed at unseating their authoritarian governments.
As the first vessel entered Venezuelan waters late Saturday, Irans national anthem sounded on Venezuela state television against images of the late Islamic revolutionary Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as black-chador-covered women march with an Iranian flagjarring sights for the rum-and-beauty-pageant-loving South...