Era of Western Hegemony Over

IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the times when the industrialized West would determine what goes on in the rest of the world is over, reminding how the U.S. has been on a campaign of incessant warmongering to prevent this inevitable change in the course of history.

Zarif made the remarks at a forum in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Thursday during a three-leg tour of Latin America that is to take him to Cuba and Bolivia next.

“The West is fighting for its survival …, the era of Western hegemony is over,” he said, speaking alongside his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza.

“Today, the United States and all its allies combined cannot control what happens in the world, they have lost control … The West is losing its integrity, it is losing its coherence, its cohesion,” he said.

The remarks came after the U.S. failed to prevent Iran from sending two massive sets of shipments featuring gasoline supplies and refinery equipment to Venezuela earlier this year. The exports came in blunt defiance of the US’ economic war on both the countries that has seen Washington targeting them with across-the-board sanctions.

Zarif said Western states have lost their monopoly and power has been decentralized due to emergence of “sources of power that are independent and inspire others, such as Iran and Venezuela.”

Once it sensed the unpreventable change in the global order, the Iranian top diplomat said, the U.S. began waging back-to-back wars across the world, the top Iranian diplomat said.

During the last decades, the U.S. “has waged one war per year” in the world, that is against Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, among other countries, because it has realized that in the unfolding of history, “the industrial Western world is losing its central role,” Zarif said. “The U.S. wages a war every year to prevent precisely this change in the movement of history,” he added.

The American officials, who were alarmed by the receding Western sphere of control, set off this campaign of spreading violence across the world so they would be able to “institutionalize the domination of the West” by “instrumentalizing military supremacy,” the Iranian official concluded.

Meanwhile Zarif and Nicolas Maduro discussed and exchanged views on various aspects and issues of relations between the two countries and the most important international issues.

Zarif also had a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart in Caracas.

During the Thursday meeting, the two sides conferred on bilateral, regional, and international issues.

Later Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in a message on Twitter said that the Venezuela’s nation feels love today more than gratitude for the nation and government of Iran.

“The people of Venezuela today feel more than gratitude, love for the people and government of Iran, for their solidarity and courage when it comes to helping us in times of difficulty,” Arreaza tweeted.

The Iranian foreign minister arrived in the Venezuelan capital on Wednesday at the first leg of a three-nation Latin American tour which will also take him to Bolivia after he wraps up his visit to Cuba.

Zarif was welcomed by his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Arreaza, upon his arrival in Caracas on Wednesday.

Zarif and Rodriguez discussed issues of mutual interest in Caracas on Thursday.

The Iranian diplomat earlier held a joint meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza on Thursday.

Zarif then left Venezuela for Havana, Cuba, to continue his Latin American journey as he will later fly to Bolivia.