Iran, Niger Explore New Vistas of Cooperation

By: Kayhan Int’l

Among the positive developments started in the free world, a couple of months before the heroic ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Storm’ of October 7 launched in the 1948 occupied parts of Palestine to shatter the myth of military might of the illegal Zionist entity, was the overthrow in West Africa of a regime imposed on Niger by former colonial master France.

The people’s coup led by General Abdourahamane Tchiani, celebrated by the Muslim masses in the capital Niamey and other cities with orders from the new government to the French troops to immediately leave the country, came less than two weeks after a three nation maiden tour of Africa by Iran’s President Hojjat al-Islam Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi who was given red carpet welcome to the horror of the US and its chief terrorist protégé Israel.
It was but natural of Niger, unlawfully sanctioned by the West, to explore vistas of cooperation with the Islamic Republic resulting in a visit to Tehran on October 26, 2023 by Foreign Minister Bakary Yaou Sangare and his positive talks with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who took time from his busy trips to several countries to arouse the awareness of the governments and the public to the holocaust unleashed on Gaza by Usurper Israel with US support.
Last Wednesday the growing ties between Iran and Niger reached climax with the arrival in Tehran of Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine, and his fruitful talks with President Raisi and Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber on cooperation in a wide variety of fields, including in the political, economic, technological and scientific spheres.
The Iranian president pointed to the host the dark record of the US, France, and other Western countries in looting the resources and assets of other nations, while resorting to hypocrisy by harping on human rights, democracy, and security, at a time when their active involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza has ripped the mask off to expose their ugly faces to the whole world.
He said Niger has a “brilliant future” and praised the West African country for its choosing of ’the “path of independence and freedom.”
Several important agreements were signed between Iran and Niger, which is quite aware of the Islamic Republic’s highly positive role in neighbouring Nigeria.
Mokhber promised Zeine: “We will definitely share the experiences we have in this field with our brothers in Niger.”
In West Africa, as the colonial tentacles of France are being cut and the unjust US influence wanes, Iran and other countries, such as Russia and China have stepped in to help countries asserting their independence, such as Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.