In this meeting, the two sides underlined the need for establishing a joint agricultural committee between Iran and Malaysia to follow up on the implementation of the agreements in this sector, Mehr News Agency reported.

“Malaysia is one of the important countries of Asia and the Islamic world and plays an important role in Iran’s strategic policy in the West Asian region,” Nikbakht said in the meeting.

The official pointed to the exchange of high-ranking economic delegations between the two countries as a positive step towards the expansion of mutual cooperation and said that the leader of the two countries have continuously emphasized the need for the expansion of relations between the two sides especially in the agricultural sector.

Nikbakht further pointed to the 90 percent self-sufficiency of Iran in the food industry and stated: “Iran has been able to achieve good progress in the production of basic goods and important food products in recent years and the country is trying to exchange experiences and technical knowledge with friendly countries.”

Mentioning the 34 percent increase in trade between Iran and Malaysia from 2022 onwards, the official said: “It is possible to develop the level of trade between the two countries even further by assessing the needs of the two sides and supplying them.”

The Malaysia Foreign Minister for his art considered his trip to Iran as important and said: “meeting with Iranian officials is considered strategic for Malaysia and this trip can facilitate trade and economic relations between the two countries.”

Abdul Kadir noted that the expansion of relations with Iran in political, economic and trade areas is a main policy of the Malaysian government, adding that: “Malaysia intends to use Iran’s experiences in the food industry to make up for the backwardness in ensuring food security.”

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During a meeting between Abdul Razak Ahmad, the Malaysian deputy science minister, and Reza Asadifard, an official with the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, the two sides discussed ways to share experience in boosting laboratory infrastructure, IRNA reported.

“I will try to provide the ground for the transfer of experience from Iran to Malaysia, and I will follow up so that specialized cooperation in the field of the laboratory is formed between the two countries,” the Malaysian official said.

Health Minister Bahram Einollahi has said many countries in the region are asking Iran for help with issues related to health.

Emphasizing that all diseases are currently treated in the country, the minister added: “With the help of scientists, we were able to educate efficient human resources,” ISNA reported.

“With the efforts that have been made during the 44 years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, today we have the strongest health system in the region in such a way that the health indicators in the Islamic Republic are far ahead of other countries in the region.”

All the indicators of health and treatment have made significant progress after the Islamic Revolution, and now Iran is one of the leading countries in this field, Saeed Karimi, the deputy health minister has said.

Health is one of the areas that got a good jump after the Islamic Revolution, ISNA quoted Karimi as saying.

It should be noted that in the early years of the Revolution, even for a cataract, which is a routine ophthalmic operation, the patient was sent abroad, but now patients from abroad come to Iran for the most advanced surgeries, he highlighted.

“At the beginning of the Revolution, there were just 56,000 hospital beds, but now we have 156,000 hospital beds,” he noted.

Meanwhile, there were just seven thousand specialists, but now there are 70 thousand specialists and sub-specialists in the country, he added.

In June 2021, Ahmed al-Mandhari, the World Health Organization director for Eastern Mediterranean Region, said the Islamic Republic of Iran is a role model for primary health care.

For the past four decades, its PHC network has aimed to ensure that people have timely access to affordable, accessible, and acceptable essential health services, he explained.

In October 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Iran Jaffar Hussain, said that Iran’s health system can be a model for other countries in the region, especially in the field of health and the use of valuable forces such as healthcare providers.

The national budget bill for the current Iranian calendar year 1402, which started on March 21, has increased the health sector’s budget by 29 percent compared to the current year’s budget.

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The MOU was signed in a meeting between Iran’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Mohammad Khayam-Nikouie and Malaysian Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Mohamad Sabu.

Establishing a joint research station for tropical fruits, providing joint research opportunities in the fields of water management, fisheries, horticulture, irrigation, and plant conservation, as well as holding short-term courses and joint training workshops are among the most important areas covered in the cooperation document.

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