In June, President Nicolás Maduro visited Iran, a country in which he held talks with his counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi. The president signed a 20-year strategic cooperation agreement “in all areas”, so the announcement could be framed in this agreement
The government of Nicolás Maduro will cede one million hectares of farmland to Iran. This was confirmed by the Iranian deputy minister for economic affairs, Mohsen Kousheshtabar.
Already the director of the Association of Transterritorial Crops of Iran, Ali Rezvanizade, assured in the middle of this month that Venezuela could offer a better opportunity than Brazil and Russia for agricultural projects in his country, including the cultivation of soybeans and corn.
In June, President Nicolás Maduro visited Iran, a country in which he held talks with his counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi. Both nations signed a 20-year strategic cooperation agreement “in all areas.”
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“We have great cooperation fronts between Iran and Venezuela. At the energy level, oil, gas, refineries, petrochemicals, at the financial level, at the defense level,” Maduro said at a press conference with the official.
At that time, the Iranian authority asserted that relations between the two nations are “strategic” and seek to confront the actions of the United States to “destabilize” both territories. In his opinion, “the signing of the 20-year cooperation document is a sign of the will of the high authorities of both countries to expand ties in different areas.”
At that time, the politicians did not go into the details of the agreement, but Maduro underlined the cooperation to “consolidate the sovereignty and food security of our countries.”
Like Russia, China, Cuba and Turkey, Iran is one of the main allies of the Maduro government. In 2020, the nation received two shipments of fuel and derivatives from Iran to alleviate shortages.
Bilateral relations between these two oil producers were already close during the Hugo Chavez government and have been further strengthened under the Maduro government to overcome Western sanctions against the two countries.
With information from the Islamic Republic News Agency
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