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The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisisigned this Monday in Caracas various agreements with your partner Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroin order to strengthen cooperation before “common enemies”, as he said, between these two countries sanctioned by USA.
“The relationship between Iran and Venezuela It is not a normal diplomatic relationship, but a strategic relationship between two countries that have common interests, common visions and common enemies.”, Raisi expressed in a statement together with Maduro, in which he estimated bilateral trade at 3,000 million dollars a year and assured that the goal is to take it, in principle, to 10,000 million.
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“We are friends in difficult times”, he added according to a translator in the presidential palace of mirafloresin the center of Caracas.
The Iranian leader, who did not expressly mention USAbegan in Venezuela his first visit to Latin Americawhich will also take you to Cuba and Nicaraguaall countries that consider “friends”.
“Iran is playing a starring role as one of the world’s foremost emerging powers.Maduro said. “Together we will be invincible!”, cried the socialist ruler with an image in the background of the flags of Venezuela and Iran merging into one.
Maduro did mention USA and, in particular, he criticized the former president donald trump for a recent speech of his at a campaign event.
“When I left (from power), Venezuela was about to collapse. We would have seized it and got all that oilTrump said. “A confession by a party, relief of evidenceMaduro reacted.
Raisi and Maduro signed 25 agreements in multiple areas: petrochemicals, mining, health, education, among others, without disclosing further details about these agreements.
“In the last two years our cooperation with these countries has developed”, he said in Tehran Raisi, elected in 2021, before beginning his five-day tour in Latin America. “This journey may be a turning point”.
Iran is one of Maduro’s main international allies, both countries being members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)- subject to US financial sanctions that seek to hit its economy.
In 2020, in the middle of the pandemic of covid-19Iran sent 1.5 million barrels of gasoline and supplies to try to revive Venezuela’s refineries amid a severe fuel shortage.
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Maduro received in Caracas in February the head of Iranian diplomacy, Hossein Amir-Abdollahianand visited Tehran in June 2022 to sign a 20-year cooperation agreement to strengthen its “alliance”.
The last visit of an Iranian president to Cuba and Venezuela dates back to 2016, when Hassan Rohani was there before participating in the UN General Assembly in NY. His predecessor, Mahmud Ahmadinejadwas received in Nicaragua in January 2007.
Daniel Ortegathe Nicaraguan president, defended in February the right of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
Source: Elcomercio
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