President Rouhani remarked that the U.S. sought “to interfere in the normal trade between Iran and a friendly country [ie, Venezuela] in carrying an oil product, and this is something that has nothing to do with them and is not compatible with any law”. Rouhani went on to assess that “if there had been no unity within the country between the government, other branches and the armed forces, the Americans might have succeeded in their aggression and [caused] another Gibraltar in the Caribbean, but unity and solidarity prevented such a thing from happening”.