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EghtesadOnline: Venezuela is in chaos. Iran is grappling with US sanctions. And now there is a surge of violence in Libya. Trouble in these three OPEC nations has helped send US oil prices climbing back above $64 a barrel.

EghtesadPnline: Oil prices rose to their highest level since November 2018 on Monday, driven upwards by OPEC’s ongoing supply cuts, US sanctions against Iran and Venezuela , fighting in Libya as well as strong US jobs data.

EghtesadOnline: The United States is adopting hostile policies toward both Iran and Venezuela but the model it is using for the Latin American country is not applicable to Tehran, given the economic, geopolitical and domestic structural differences between the two oil-rich countries, an analyst said.

EghtesadOnline: Venezuela ’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro rejected an international ultimatum to call elections within eight days and said opposition leader Juan Guaido had violated the country’s constitution by declaring himself leader.