Desire for independence, freedom, justice common features of revolutions of people of Iran, Nicaragua: Raisi
Tehran (ISNA) – Iran’s president stated that the desire for independence, freedom and justice are the common features of the revolutions of the people of Iran and Nicaragua, and said, “America wanted to stop our nation with sanctions and threats, but our nation not only did not stop, but instead, it used the threats and sanctions to build and progress”.
Speaking after the official welcoming ceremony of Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi honoured the national heroes of fighting imperialism in the two countries.
President Raisi called the Nicaraguan people’s resistance against arrogance the secret of the nation’s victory, and said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran is a democratic system and in the 44 years that have passed since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, people’s vote has shaped all the institutions of the Islamic Republic”.
The President called westerners’ claims of democracy and human rights false and said, “Westerners, especially Americans, should respect the system that emerge from people’s votes, but they are doing the opposite”.
President Raisi continued, “America wanted to stop our nation with sanctions and threats, but our nation not only did not stop, but instead, it used the threats and sanctions to build and progress”.
Referring to the role of the Americans in the creation of ISIS and the policy of the Islamic Republic in fighting terrorism, the President said, “They claim to fight terrorism, but they martyred the hero of fighting terrorism, Haj Qasem Soleimani”.
In this ceremony, Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, also referred to the simultaneity of the revolutions of Iran and Nicaragua and said, “The revolutions of the two countries had strong roots in fighting domination, especially the United States, which has always sought to impose its will on others”.
The President of Nicaragua described hegemony as part of the nature of imperialism and added, “The arrogant put pressure on independent countries under the pretext of human rights and democracy, but we will stand against them with strength”.
He also praised the national heroes of the two countries and condemned the crime of American in martyring Haj Qasem Soleimani and declared a minute of silence in honour of the Iranian hero of fighting terrorism.
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source: en.isna.ir