Q24N (EFE) The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, announced on Tuesday in Managua that they will increase and deepen their cooperation with Nicaragua in science and technology and in other areas, and assured that relations with the Central American country are “completely strategic.”
During an open-air event held in the symbolic Plaza de los Non-Aligned, next to the headquarters of Nicaragua’s National Assembly, Raisí said, accompanied by his counterpart, Daniel Ortega, that “since the beginning of the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran”, in 1979, “there has been an excellent fraternal relationship with our brothers from the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua”.
“Our relationships are not habitual, traditional relationships, they are completely strategic relationships,” he maintained.
Raisí, who heads a large Iranian delegation, affirmed that Tehran wants to “increase and deepen our relations” with Nicaragua “in all areas: political, economic, cultural, in all areas, especially in matters of science and technology.”
Anti-Imperialist Revolutions
On the other hand, he thanked President Ortega for inviting him and the Iranian delegation to visit Nicaragua, whose people he praised for being “heroic, patient, resilient, and fighter.”
“The Islamic revolution in Iran triumphed in February 1979, and coincided with the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, on July 19 of that same year, and assured that «the struggle and effort of our peoples during those revolutions influenced in the other one.
“Our people know very well the struggles and the efforts and movements of the Nicaraguan people. You fought against imperialism and you triumphed, you fought against looting, the illegitimate demands and desires of imperialism, and you triumphed,” Raisí said.
The Iranian president added that the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran taught the people that by following two principles one can always succeed: “trusting God and trusting ourselves, in our abilities”.
He assured that “the great people of Iran knew very well the conspiracies and the tricks and the plans of the imperialist enemies, and resisted against all their conspiracies” during “the eight years of the imposed war and triumphed.”
Therefore, he considered that “there is a lot of similarity between the Islamic revolution in Iran and the Sandinista revolution of the people of Nicaragua.”
Iran Has Overcome Sanctions
On the other hand, the Iranian president denounced that “the United States wanted to paralyze our people through threats and sanctions, but our people do not stop and were not paralyzed in their path and turned threats and sanctions into opportunities.
“And through those opportunities he made great strides in different areas. Today the Iranian nation is an advanced nation and has made great progress in different areas, despite the enemy’s sanctions,” he continued.
“This shows (that) if a people has a firm will, in no way can the evil and imperialist powers stop it,” he added.
Likewise, Raisí said that “the people have to know that the new world order that is being formed, is going to be formed and is being formed in favor of the resistance of the peoples and against imperialist interests.”
The visit to Nicaragua is the second stop of the Iranian president on his tour of Latin America, which also includes Venezuela and Cuba.
Raisí arrived accompanied by his wife, Jamileh Alamolhoda, as well as a large delegation from his country, made up of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Oil, Health, Culture, and Economic Diplomacy, among others.
On Wednesday, the Iranian president made a courtesy visit to the National Assembly of Nicaragua, where he proposed exchanging “capacities” between “independent countries” in order to “protect themselves and become immune to the conspiracies and plans of imperialism”, which he considered “a common enemy”.
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Iran maintains close ties with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, cemented by their mutual opposition to the United States.
Relations between Iran and Nicaragua have been very close since the Sandinista Daniel Ortega returned to power in January 2007.
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.
