{"id":1948407,"date":"2023-06-15T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-and-iran-in-havana-meeting-vow-to-confront-yankee-imperialism\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:09:47","slug":"cuba-and-iran-in-havana-meeting-vow-to-confront-yankee-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-and-iran-in-havana-meeting-vow-to-confront-yankee-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba and Iran unite in Havana, pledge to confront &#8216;Yankee imperialism&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcuba-and-iran-in-havana-meeting-vow-to-confront-yankee-imperialism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Raisi Strengthens Ties with Latin American Allies on Last Stop of Tour<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>HAVANA\u2014Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies saddled, like Iran, by U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Raisi and Diaz-Canel Discuss Areas of Cooperation<\/h3>\n<p>Raisi told reporters at a trade forum in Havana early on Thursday that Cuba and Iran would seek opportunities to work together in electricity generation, biotechnology, and mining, among other areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conditions and circumstances in which Cuba and Iran find themselves today have many things in common,&#8221; Raisi said in a conversation with Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel. &#8220;Every day our relations grow stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Top officials signed administrative agreements vowing to boost cooperation between the countries&#8217; ministries of justice, and customs agencies, as well as in telecommunications.<\/p>\n<h3>Building Alliances in Latin America<\/h3>\n<p>Raisi earlier this week visited with leaders of fellow oil-producer Venezuela, where he pledged to ramp up bilateral trade and expand cooperation in petrochemicals. Prior to arriving in Cuba, the Iranian president also met with Nicaragua\u00b4s Daniel Ortega in the Central American country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Iran are among the countries that have had to heroically confront sanctions (&#8230;) threats, blockades and interference by Yankee imperialism and its allies with a tenacious resistance,&#8221; Diaz-Canel told his Iranian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This visit reinforced our conviction that we have in Iran a friendly nation in the Middle East, with which to confide &#8230; and talk about the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-and-iran-in-havana-meeting-vow-to-confront-yankee-imperialism\/\" title=\"Cuba and Iran unite in Havana, pledge to confront 'Yankee imperialism'.\">complex global issues<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Respecting Sovereign Decisions<\/h3>\n<p>Asked earlier this week about Raisi&#8217;s tour of Latin America, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said the Iranian president could speak to his own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t ask countries in this hemisphere or any other to choose who they\u2019re going to associate with or who they\u2019re going to talk to or who they\u2019re going to allow to visit,&#8221; Kirby said. &#8220;That\u2019s for them to speak to. We\u2019re focused on our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-war-vets-warn-biden-against-shuttering-gitmo\/\" title=\"Congressional War Vets Warn Biden Against Shuttering Gitmo\">national security interest<\/a> in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Expanding Alliances in the Face of Sanctions<\/h3>\n<p>Raisi\u00b4s visit comes as Cuba also moves to bolster ties with distant, but critical, allies like Russia and China, both subject to U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz-Canel last year also met with the presidents of Russia and China, firming up relations and signing deals to ease the country&#8217;s debt burden and secure aid following the devastating impacts of Hurricane Ian, which ravaged the island last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Communist-run Cuba has been under a wide-reaching U.S. trade embargo since shortly after Fidel Castro&#8217;s 1959 revolution. Those restrictions, reinforced by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, have contributed to a nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-sanctions-companies-individuals-for-financially-supporting-hezbollah-terror-group\/\" title=\"U.S. Sanctions Companies, Individuals for Financially Supporting Hezbollah Terror Group\">unprecedented economic crisis<\/a> that has led to shortages of food, fuel, and medicine.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Raisi called his visit with Iran\u00b4s key Latin American allies a &#8220;turning point&#8221; in relations.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Nelson Acosta; editing by Dave Sherwood and Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi concluded his Latin American tour by meeting Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. 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