Iranian president on way to Cuba to forge military and energy deals after visits to Venezuela and Nicaragua
https://www.newarab.com/news/irans-raisi-visit-cuba-nicaragua-and-venezuela
https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-s-raisi-to-visit-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-/7127595.html
Excerpt:
ranian President Ebrahim Raisi will conclude military and energy agreements during his visit to Havana, where he will arrive on Wednesday from Venezuela and Nicaragua, his other two stops on his first visit to Latin America.
“As far as Venezuela is concerned, it is the oil area. In this sector, Iran has acted and we have verified in Venezuela that the industry has been able to rise thanks to cooperation. In the defense area, Iran has in-depth knowledge in this area Similarly, in Cuba and Nicaragua similar issues related to oil and defense will be discussed,” international analyst Basem Tajeldine told the official Russian website Sputnik.
“Our common position with these three countries is opposition to the hegemonic and unilateral system,” Raisi said before leaving for Caracas.
In the Venezuelan capital, and during his meeting with Nicolás Maduro, he was more explicit and assured that both countries have “an enemy in common”, alluding to the United States.
According to Tajeldine, a former adviser to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, this tour takes place in a context of “accelerated decline of US hegemony.”
“There is a multipolar world that is more evident every day, it is even accepted,” he said, so the Iranian president’s trip will “upset” the US. “Surely he will feel very angry with the presence of a leader like Raisi, who comes to address a very sensitive issue for our countries. But he has already done everything and has failed,” he assured.
RPOF Changes Candidate Oath In Attempt To Keep Trump Off Ballot In FL
https://miamiindependent.com/rpof-changes-candidate-oath-in-attempt-to-keep-trump-off-ballot-in-fl/
Excerpt:
RPOF Chairman Christian Ziegler, has authorized a rule change by the RPOF Constitution & Rules Committee (at the May 2023 Spring Meeting in Orlando) to Rule 31 pertaining to presidential candidates and nominees in FL. All candidates must affirm, through the RPOF Oath, that they WILL support the nominee or they WILL NOT be placed on the Florida Presidential Primary Ballot. This appears to be an attempt to keep President Trump off the Ballot for the FL President Preference Primary which is March 19, 2024.
Trump has not publicly affirmed he will support the RPOF nominee no matter who it is, due to massive election fraud nationwide during the 2020 and 2022 elections.
Is Russia planning to establish a submarine base in Cuba?
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1686767910_47838.html
Translated excerpt:
ussia’s Horn News warned in its analysis of the bilateral talks that when it comes to military cooperation issues, “it is understandable that the details have not yet been revealed.”
And he anticipates something that until now had not been mentioned: “In addition to the supply of more current weapons, Russia is considering the option of its limited presence in Cuba. After all, Soviet troops were present in Cuba, even with ballistic missiles.”
This medium recalls that in January 2020, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, visited the Island, who held “a series of meetings with the leadership of the Department of Defense of the Republic of Cuba, as well as visits to different objects and Navy units.
That visit, clarifies Horn News, “was related not only to the demand for restoration of the small Cuban Armed Forces, but also to the modernization of the port facilities where ships and submarines of the Russian fleet will stop to replenish reserves.”
The report reveals something else: that base would be located in Cienfuegos, where nuclear submarines and Soviet warships anchored periodically in the 1970s.
Few reports from the official Cuban press reported that Evmenov was received in 2020 by Raúl Castro. But they did not disclose details of their exchanges.
In January 2022, the then Russian ambassador in Havana, Andrei Guskov, recalled Evmenov’s visit, and indicated that “we continue to collaborate closely in this sphere, assisting our partners in strengthening the capacity of the Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FAR) of Cuba”.
Days earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov stated that Moscow neither confirmed nor denied that in certain circumstances it would study the possible deployment of forces in other nations as a symmetrical countermeasure to US and NATO military activities near its borders.
The project agenda that is being speculated about also includes resurrecting the Lourdes radio electronic espionage base, whose main objective was to listen to American communications. That military enclave, which reported millions to the Fidel Castro regime, was “frozen” in 2002, “but its technical condition was maintained by Russian specialists all these years. (…) And, according to experts, it can be resurrected in just a few months “adds Horn.ru.
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They, like the Chinese, smell weakness in FJB and are taking advantage of it.