Tehran (IP) - Iran's Minister of Energy says Tehran-Managua cooperation must be expanded.

Iran PressIran news: In a video conference conversation with a top-ranking Nicaraguan delegation, Iran's Minister of Energy Ali Akbar Mehrabian said that Iran's ties with the Latin American countries, including Venezuela and Nicaragua, would be fruitful. 

In recent years, the relations between Iran and Latin American countries have been promoted and extended to political, economic, commercial, industrial, energy, health, and other fields.

In the visual conversation, Mehrabian highlighted the common points between Iran and Nicaragua, including the crises and political resistance, and stressed the importance of economic and political ties between Iran and Latin American countries. 

He expressed Iran's readiness to hold a joint commission of cooperation with Nicaragua to realize the two countries' further goals. 

The Senior Aid to the Nicaraguan President for Investment, Trad, and International Cooperation Affairs said, for her part, that having ties with Iran was the top priority of the Nicaraguan president. 

Laura Anua Ortega expressed her optimism about the future joint commission of cooperation and considered Nicaragua's receiving oil byproducts needed from Iran as a turning point of economic cooperation between the two countries. 

She then suggested that the joint commission be held in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua. 

Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran has established good relations with some countries in the Latin American region, such as Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia, which have a long history of fighting imperialism and arrogant powers led by the United States.

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