Iran, Cuba vow to confront US ‘aggressive imperial coverage’
The presidents of Iran and Cuba vowed Thursday to collectively confront the “aggressive imperial coverage” of america, which has sanctions in place in opposition to each international locations.
Internet hosting his counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Havana, President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated 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, america additionally has Cuba and Iran on its listing of state sponsors of “terrorism.”
The boys 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 stated Iran would work with communist Cuba in science and expertise, on hydroelectric and thermoelectric vegetation, and mining.
The Iranian president’s official go to to Cuba closed a tour of “pleasant international locations” that additionally included US-sanctioned Nicaragua and Venezuela, that share what he known as “frequent enemies.”
All are allies of Russia, which is waging a conflict on Ukraine.
In Venezuela, Raisi and Nicolas Maduro stated they’d signed 25 accords in sectors starting from training and well being to mining.
Deepening commerce and change was additionally on the agenda in Nicaragua, whose President Daniel Ortega stated the leaders had signed a “fundamental memorandum” that can search to spice up financial, business and scientific-technical cooperation.
Ortega has stated 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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