2023-06-15 06:30:00
Iran, a country that generates fear in the hemisphere due to its propensity to promote groups considered terrorists and promote the rise of highly dangerous weapons, is promoting its ties with Venezuela and Nicaragua. This, of course, unleashed the immediate alert of the West and, especially, of the United States.
Indeed, the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, assured this Wednesday that –despite the geographical distance between his country and Latin America– the Islamist government seeks to deepen the ties of friendship with Managua to share “capacities and experiences”.
Raisi arrived in Nicaragua on Tuesday to discuss with his Central American counterpart, Daniel Ortega, bilateral cooperation agreements in science and technology, energy, economy and trade, culture and politics, and this Wednesday he visited the National Assembly on the last day of his visit to the country.
“We have the willingness to share our capabilities and our experiences with the brother and friendly country of Nicaragua, our visit to Latin America and Nicaragua demonstrates the political will of our country to consolidate and deepen our friendly relations,” Raisi said in a speech before the deputies, according to the official translation.
“The peoples of Iran and Nicaragua share a common history of struggle, resistance, revolutions, combat against a common enemy,” he said.
Raisi took advantage of the proximity to the United States to lash out at that government and other “imperialist powers”, accusing them of attacking and destabilizing independent governments around the world through coup attempts and economic sanctions.
“There is a great geographical distance between Nicaragua and Iran and the Latin American region, but our hearts are very close and our objectives are also very close,” added the Iranian leader.
The Islamic leader began his tour of Latin America on Monday in Venezuela, another country that for the West is under the yoke of a regime – just like Nicaragua – and this Wednesday he moved to Cuba, another nation that is considered to be tied to a dictatorship. left.
In Caracas, Raisi and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, signed 25 agreements to strengthen cooperation between the two countries sanctioned by the United States.
Receiving the Iranian “brother president” on Tuesday, Ortega highlighted the coincidence of the victory of the Islamic revolution in February 1979 and the Sandinista revolution in July of the same year.
“For this reason, we have always said and repeated that we are twin revolutions, with deep roots in the defense of our identity,” said the Nicaraguan president.
Raisi is the second Iranian president to visit Nicaragua since – in 2007 and 2012 – then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did so.
In February, the head of Iranian diplomacy, Hosein Amir Abdolahian, stated in Managua that Iran and Nicaragua have “many similarities” and that both countries were finalizing compliance mechanisms to promote bilateral agreements in multiple areas.
Ortega has defended Tehran’s use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and during Abdolahian’s visit he questioned the moral authority of Western powers to ban Iran’s right to have nuclear weapons.
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