Each Iran and Cuba are the shut allies of Russia, which is waging a conflict on Ukraine.
Havana:
The presidents of Iran and Cuba vowed Thursday to collectively confront the “aggressive imperial coverage” of the US, which has sanctions in place towards each nations.
Internet hosting his counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Havana, President Miguel Diaz-Canel mentioned each nations “have needed to face heroically, with tenacious resistance, the sanctions, the pressures, the threats, the blockades and the indifference of US imperialism and its allies.”
Other than sanctions, the US additionally has Cuba and Iran on its checklist of state sponsors of “terrorism.”
The lads presided over the signing of memoranda on cooperation in areas together with customs, telecommunications and justice.
Within the morning, Raisi had attended a enterprise discussion board the place he mentioned Iran would work with communist Cuba in science and expertise, on hydroelectric and thermoelectric crops, and mining.
The Iranian president’s official go to to Cuba closed a tour of “pleasant nations” that additionally included US-sanctioned Nicaragua and Venezuela, that share what he known as “widespread enemies.”
All are allies of Russia, which is waging a conflict on Ukraine.
In Venezuela, Raisi and Nicolas Maduro mentioned they’d signed 25 accords in sectors starting from schooling and well being to mining.
Deepening commerce and change was additionally on the agenda in Nicaragua, whose President Daniel Ortega mentioned the leaders had signed a “primary memorandum” that can search to spice up financial, industrial and scientific-technical cooperation.
Ortega has mentioned that Tehran has a proper to make use of nuclear power for peaceable functions, and in February questioned the ethical authority of Western powers to ban Iran from having nuclear weapons.
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