Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting with ministers at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Nov. 2, 2018. Photo: Miraflores Palace / Handout via Reuters.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he would visit Iran shortly to sign cooperation agreements in energy and other sectors, after Iran sent five fuel tankers to the gasoline-starved South American country.

“I am obliged to go to personally thank the people,” Maduro said in a state television address, without providing a date for the visit.