“The two countries have common interests, common visions and common enemies. Cooperation with Venezuela seems deep and strategic to us,” Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi intoned on Monday after signing twenty “strategic agreements” with Nicolás Maduro. In this way, and after receiving the Order of Liberators in his First Class, thanks to the “stellar role as an emerging power of the new world”, the first stage of the tour of the Iranian president in the so-called backyard of the United States ended, which continues in Nicaragua and Cuba.
All four countries are sanctioned by the United States. “We are friends in difficult times,” said Raisi, who chaired the meeting between the two delegations together with Chávez’s son, which did not include the first revolutionary fighter, Cilia Flores, or Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the right hand of Ripe.
“Our common position with these three countries is opposition to the hegemonic and unilateral system,” Raisi added.
The agreements signed in petrochemical, transport and mining matters, among others, consolidate a relationship that Hugo Chávez and former Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad began in the first decade of the century and which has become fundamental for Chavismo. “Two revolutions and two countries that were born to be brothers,” concluded the Pueblo president, who defined the visit as “a new milestone.”
Iran, along with Russia and Turkey, became one of the key allies to screw Maduro into power after being challenged by the democratic opposition and the international community in 2019. In one of the worst energy crises due to lack of fuel, Tehran it supplied the Venezuelan refineries and sent its technicians to reactivate them. At present, Venezuela is suffering from a new gasoline crisis, which has filled all the states of the country with enormous queues, despite being the one with the largest oil reserves on the entire planet.
“There is no doubt before the world that Maduro is only interested in opening the doors of the region to terrorism and violence with alliances with Iran, Russia, Nicaragua and Cuba. It is the way modern dictatorships are maintained,” he cried from his exile. in the United States Juan Guaidó, ex-president in charge fled from the oil country.
Raisi continues his tour in Managua, his great Central American ally, where even the dictator Daniel Ortega defended his right to acquire nuclear weapons. The Iranian president will arrive on Wednesday in Havana, which in recent weeks has strengthened its ties with the other “enemies” of Washington.
On the one hand, the Russians plan the economic transition towards a kind of authoritarian capitalism after the systemic failure of the Castro model. And on the other, the controversy over China’s espionage activities from the Cuban island, known in Washington since the Donald Trump administration, continues in the United States. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, prepares his trip to Beijing.
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