TEHRAN — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the formation of an international coalition to counter the United States and other Western powers, as he highlighted commonalities in the foreign policies of Tehran and Havana at a meeting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday in Tehran.
"Revolutionary honesty, revolutionary resilience and revolutionary firmness are the shared convictions of the Islamic revolution and the Cuban revolution," Khamenei said, according to his official website. The hard-line leader noted that there was sufficient potential in both countries as well as other "like-minded" nations to be channeled toward a coalition against Washington.
Iran and Cuba have both been under onerous US economic sanctions for decades, which have left much of their respective populations increasingly grappling with daily grievances amid soaring inflation. Khamenei's envisioned coalition was to be centered on "economic cooperation" to mitigate the impacts of those punitive measures.
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