19 July 2024

The Head of the Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Zimbabwe, Mr. Hamid Bakhtiyar, has exchanged ideas on how Iran and Zimbabwe can contain the evil sanctions that have been imposed on the friendly and brotherly countries of Zimbabwe and Iran by the American government.

In their successful bid to bust the sanctions, both Zimbabwe and Iran have achieved self-sufficiency and recorded impressive achievements in most economic and social sector areas, despite the wish by America that the two countries would collapse.

The Cultural Counsellor, in his welcome remarks to the visiting head of the Zimbabwe Anti Sanctions Trust, Dr. Norbert Hosho, said the Islamic Republic of Iran has instilled in itself a sense of self-belief in its capabilities to sustain itself and its people despite the onslaught of economic terrorism being subjected on the country by America.

Mr Bakhtiyar said Zimbabwe and Iran need to come together, resist, and fight the sanctions.

He said America just wants to impose its own selfless ideas on countries that it is not friendly to, and these ideas include its polluted and bad cultural practices that have no place in enlightened and culturally rich countries like Iran and Zimbabwe.

The Cultural Counsellor pledged to fully cooperate with the Zimbabwe Anti Sanctions Trust in all its programs that are meant to enhance cultural cooperation between Iran and Zimbabwe. Such programs include seminars and the screening of animated films in schools identified by the Anti sanctions Trust.

In response, Dr Hosho, who is also an author and newspaper writer, noted that his Trust is ready to partner the Cultural Centre in programmes that enhances and helps to grow cultural interactions between the two countries.

He encouraged the Cultural Counsellor to have these programmes in rural areas as they would greatly benefit the rural people who have been mostly affected by the American imposed sanctions.

By visiting the rural areas and holding cultural interaction programmes like festivals in those areas, Dr Hosho said school children and other rural people stands to positively benefit from exposure to the rich Iranian culture.

Dr Hosho said his organisation’s main aim is to conscientise the people of Zimbabwe on the sanctions and on how best to bust them. He said his Trust also lobbies the Parliament of Zimbabwe to pass laws that helps the country to bust the sanctions.

He told his Mr Bakhtiyar that his in his writings in the daily newspaper, the Herald, he would be unpacking the sanctions issue, as well as President of Zimbabwe, Dr. Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s philosophy that says “A country is built by its own people”. He is also writing a book on the same subject.