Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday officially welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in Tehran.
After the welcome ceremony which took place in the Saadabad complex, the two presidents started bilateral talks.
Maduro arrived in Tehran on Friday afternoon at the head of a high-level political and economic delegation.
In an interview with HispanTV, Maduro said that Iranian and Venezuelan ministers are currently building a cooperation map and establishing plans and strategies for the next 20 years.
The Venezuelan president recalled that Caracas and Tehran have maintained diplomatic relations since the 1950s, noting that the process of rapprochement between these countries began to accelerate and strengthen from 2001 under the impulse of Commander Hugo Chavez’s presidency.
“The relationship between Venezuela and Iran is a model to follow because it expresses true solidarity, friendship, and mutual support in difficult times,” he said, alluding to the US economic bullying against both peoples.
“Love and solidarity have no distance,” Maduro stated, recalling that just as the revolutionaries in this region of the world admire Simon Bolivar, so do the young revolutionaries of the 1970s admire what the 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution means.
At the present time, Venezuela and Iran “have recognized each other as partners in the struggle for a better world, for a world of peace, for a world without hegemonic domination. Sharing great causes has allowed us to advance so much.”
Source: Iranian media
