The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisiarrived on the afternoon of this Tuesday, June 13, in Managua and was received by the chancellor of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, Denis Moncadaand a group of regime officials.
Ebrahim Raisi arrived accompanied by his wife Jamileh Alamolhoda, and a large delegation, made up of the Iranian Ministers of Health, Oil, Culture, as well as Diplomacy and Economy.
The agenda that the Iranian president and his delegation will fulfill is unknown, nor how long they will be in the Nicaraguan capital. The official propaganda media have reported their arrival, but not the activities they will carry out, nor the time Ortega and Raisi will meet.
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The visit of the Iranian dictator has aroused some expectation in the region because he is a declared enemy of USA Analysts believe that Ortega is trying to attract the main enemies of US policy to Central America to become “dangerous” for regional stability and thus force the US government to negotiate with him.
Raisi arrived in Managua to meet with Ortega, as part of a tour he is carrying out throughout Latin America, which includes Venezuela and Cuba, as well as Nicaragua, his main allies in the region, with whom he shares dictatorial practices and violations of human rights. .
Recently, the political analyst in exile Eliseo Núñez, in an interview with Article 66opined that Ortega is attracting Washington’s enemies to Central America, “betting on becoming a security problem of such magnitude, that he intends to force the US to negotiate with him for stability in the region,” because of economic benefits or great cooperation agreements are nowhere to be seen.
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While the analyst Alberto Cortés, a political researcher at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), in a recent interview with this medium, considered that at first sight, the visit of the Iranian president to Nicaragua could only be a “diplomatic, protocol, consistent with the geopolitical line that the dictatorial regime of Ortega and Murillo has followed for several years, aligned with certain states that are, from a global perspective, trying to make a geopolitical counterweight to the Western order”.
For the expert in international politics, it is difficult to predict that this visit will have a real influence in terms of “scale or importance, geopolitical, political and economic in the relationship between Nicaragua and Iran.”
The Ortega-Murillo regime has not reported if they will sign any trade agreements with Iran. At the moment the agenda of the dictators Ortega and Raisi is a secret.
