'Africa' new chapter in Iran foreign relations
Mehr News AgencyJul 11, 2023
Iranian Pres. Ebrahim Raisi kicked off a three-day visit to Africa on Wednesday, making his first stops in Kenya and Uganda to discuss trade with Pres. William Ruto. Raisi is set to visit Zimbabwe in the first Iranian state visit to Africa in a decade.
Describing the visit as "a turning point," Raisi and Ruto signed five memoranda of understanding covering information technology, investment, fisheries, and other areas.
African countries are waking up to the neo-colonial ways of the West, and it's inevitable that cooperation between Iran and Africa will increase in light of the onerous conditions they both face from Western imperialism. With shared cultural backgrounds and policy goals of non-alignment, African countries and Iran have much to share with one another through a deepening of relations.
Iran's adversarial relationship with the West has put it on the road to ruin, and Tehran's world tour of other struggling countries will do little to alleviate its economic hardship. Iran faces a widespread economic crisis of its own making, as the West cannot and should not dignify its oppressive regime. If Raisi wants to boost the Iranian economy, he should stop their nuclear program and end their antagonistic disposition toward the West in order to see the crippling sanctions lifted.
There's a 3% chance that the US will rejoin the Iran nuclear deal by 2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.