Visiting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his accompanying delegation met the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei on Sunday, June 10.
Speaking at the meeting, which was also attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Leader stated that the unfair international relations presently existing in the world will soon be replaced by relations on an equal footing.
Ayatollah Khamenei added that independent nations and countries that are opposed to U.S. policies are able to strengthen the front calling for equity in international relations and expedite the formation of equitable relations in the world through their unity and perseverance.
The Leader further referred to the signs indicating an imminent end to the unjust relations in the world.
"One of the signs is that although ever since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the former Soviet Union the United States has been trying to establish a unipolar empire in the world, it has not been able to achieve this goal, and today the U.S. administration is the most hated government in the world," the Leader told the Nicaraguan president.
Ayatollah Khamenei also stated, "There are massive protest demonstrations in any country in Asia or Africa or Latin America or the Middle East to which the U.S. president travels, and even in Europe he is currently facing protest marches and public anger. This is something quite unprecedented in the world."
The Leader pointed out that the emergence of anti-U.S. movements in the world, especially the establishment of the Islamic Republic system in Iran and its steadily increasing power despite all the pressures, is another sign indicating that the present inequitable international relations will soon come to an end.
"In Latin America over the past years anti-U.S. governments have taken office one after another. In any country in the Islamic world also if elections are held, people will vote for those individuals or groups that are more than others opposed to the United States," Ayatollah Khamenei remarked.
Further in his statements, the Leader of the Islamic Republic pointed out that the establishment of just relations in the world is a sacred objective, the accomplishment of which requires striving and hopefulness and perseverance.
"At the time when there were two powers in the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran stood up to both of those powers with the slogan of ‘Neither the East nor the West'. Presently also the Iranian people are resisting all the pressures and will continue to do so, since the only way to reach the summits of progress is the endurance of hardships," the Leader observed.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the cooperation among independent and free countries and nations as something necessary. He stated that the relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Nicaragua are logical and firm relations which serve the interests of both countries, and which should be further expanded in all areas.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, also speaking at the meeting, expressed his agreement with the remarks made by the Leader of the Islamic Republic.
"As you said, the signs of decline of the U.S. unipolar power have become evident, and the defeat and destruction of imperialism is today more likely than at any other time. Today, the United States has become isolated among nations," the Nicaraguan president told the Leader.
President Ortega further referred to a steady increase in the number of anti-U.S. movements in Latin America and the coming to power of the regional governments that are opposed to U.S. policies.
"The U.S. government has presently become bogged down in the quagmire of Iraq and Afghanistan. Besides, there has been a sharp decline in the American people's support for the incumbent U.S. administration," President Ortega remarked.
The Nicaraguan president also told the Leader, "Under the present circumstances, cooperation and close relations among independent governments and nations are necessary for strengthening the anti-imperialism front."