Iran’s President, Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, will begin an official visit to Cuba today, the first he has paid to the island since taking office in August 2021.
According to the State Department on its website, his stay in the Caribbean country will be part of a tour of the region after completing official visits to Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The arrival in the largest of the Antilles will be a sign of the excellent state of political and diplomatic relations between the two countries and the will of both governments to improve economic and trade relations, the text says.
Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran resumed diplomatic relations on August 8, 1979, and the island was one of the first countries to recognize the new republic that emerged after the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.