A plane owned by the Iranian company Qeshm Fars Air landed at Maiquetia airport near the Venezuelan capital of Caracas after departing Tehran. The United States sanctioned Qeshm Fars in 2019 for delivering weapons from Iran to Syria. Before reaching Venezuela, the plane also made stops in Cape Verde and Tunisia. Earlier in the year, another Iranian airline, Mahan Air, organized over a dozen flights to deliver materials for Venezuela's oil refineries.