Iran and North Korea have the right to possess nuclear weapons, says Daniel Ortega

President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortegasaid Iran And North Korea have the right to have nuclear weaponafter the reception in Managua of the head of Iranian diplomacy Hossein Amir Abdolakhyan.

“We are not lovers of atomic bombs […]. But with what power? [las potencias occidentales] Do they want to ban Iran if it wants to produce atomic bombs?” Ortega asked the Iranian foreign minister.

He added that USA His allies also have no right to question North Korea’s nuclear program.

Abdolakhyan thanked Ortega for his words and confirmed that his country has made “great progress” in scientific, technological and defense matters.

Tehran has always said that its nuclear program, which causes doubts in the US and Europe, pursues peaceful purposes.

“We have never shied away from negotiations” on the nuclear issue, which Iran approaches “logically, decisively and with dignity,” Abdolakhyan said through an interpreter.

Other Iranian officials accompanying the foreign minister, as well as several Nicaraguan officials, including Ortega’s wife, also attended the meeting that night. Rosario Murillowho is vice president and government spokesman.

Ortega reaffirmed that Western powers “have no right to dictate who has atomic bombs and who doesn’t.”

“I advocate that all atomic weapons disappear, starting with what the Yankees have,” concluded the leftist president.

“Many similarities”

In the morning, the head of Iranian diplomacy visited the National Assembly (parliament) in Managua, where he stated that Iran And Nicaragua they have “a lot in common”.

“The geographical distance between the two countries is great, but our hearts are very close, and we have a lot in common, a lot of similarities,” Abdolakhyan said on the second day of his visit to Managua, from where he will travel to Venezuela. , according to Iranian and Nicaraguan sources.

“Yesterday we had and today we will also have important agreements between the two countries, and the support of the parliaments of both countries is essential for the implementation and enforcement of bilateral agreements,” the foreign minister told local official media.

Rapprochement between Managua And Tehran began in 2007 after Daniel Ortega came to power. In the same year, the then President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited Nicaragua.

The two countries signed on Wednesday evening a memorandum on “cultural, scientific, medical, political cooperation, and cooperation in all areas of the common good,” Murillo said. (AFP)