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The president of Iran will travel to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba next week

The president of Iran will travel to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba next week

(EFE).- The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, will travel next week to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to strengthen relations with these “friendly countries” in economic, political and scientific matters.

Raisí will begin the Latin American tour on Sunday, when he will leave Tehran, the presidential office announced on Wednesday, according to state media such as IRNA.

The Iranian president will travel accompanied by a “delegation of senior officials” on his visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, countries to which he is invited by his counterparts.

This is Raisí’s first trip to Latin America since he took office in August 2021. Until now he had focused on visits to the region to strengthen relations with Iran’s neighbors.

Iran maintains close ties with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, cemented by their mutual opposition to the United States.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is one of Iran’s main allies in Latin America and has backed Iran’s nuclear program and called on Israel to “disarm”

Relations between Tehran and Caracas have been very close since the time of the late President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) and have strengthened ever since.

Iran has become one of the main allies of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent years, particularly since 2020 when there was a gasoline shortage in Venezuela and Caracas went to Tehran to buy fuel.

Maduro made an official visit to Tehran in May 2022, in which he met with Raisí and with the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, who praised Venezuela’s “resistance” against the United States.

For his part, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is one of Iran’s main allies in Latin America and has supported Iran’s nuclear program and called on Israel to “disarm” to avoid a war.

Last February, the governments of both countries signed a memorandum on cooperation and public consultations in Managua, during the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to the Central American country.

At the same time, Iran and Cuba are close political allies and share their support for Venezuela and their hostility to the US, which keeps all these countries under sanctions.

Last year Tehran and Havana agreed to strengthen their cooperation in technology and food security, during the visit to the Persian country of the Cuban deputy prime minister, Ricardo Cabrisas.

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