Iran is one of the allied countries of Venezuela, because, despite the distance, it has become an important actor in circumventing the sanctions imposed by the United States on the oil industry. With an agreement signed for 20 years between both nations, cooperation is already showing its first signs.
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In June, Nicolás Maduro, during his visit to Tehran, signed a document for a duration of two decades, although the details were not known. Now, Mohsen Kousheshtabar, Iranian deputy minister for economic affairs, confirmed that Venezuela will cede one million hectares of farmland to his country.
“Giving a million hectares to Iran is equivalent to handing over more than 80 percent of the state of Táchira,” denounced Carlos Prosperi, secretary of the national organization of the Democratic Action party and possible candidate for the opposition primaries seeking to elect Chavez’s opponent for the elections. presidential.
Prosperi stressed that this transfer is a violation of Article 13 of the Constitution, which establishes that “national territory may never be ceded, transferred, leased, or in any way disposed of, even temporarily or partially, to foreign States or other subjects of international law”.
The national territory may never be ceded, transferred, leased, or in any way alienated.
Iranian spokesmen have indicated that the land will be used to produce corn and soybeans. The director of the Association of Transterritorial Crops of Iran, Ali Rezvanizade, had insisted on providing better opportunities than Brazil or Russia for these agricultural projects.
After his tour, in June, Maduro said that there were great cooperation fronts between the two nations, “at the energy level, oil, gas, refineries, petrochemicals, at the financial level, at the defense level.”
ANA RODRIGUEZ BRAZON
WEATHER CORRESPONDENT
CARACAS
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