The dream of Daniel Ortega’s regime to have an “atomic weapon” from Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian, landed in Managua at the beginning of last February, with the aim of signing collaboration agreements with the regime of Daniel Ortega. The United States followed “very closely” the visit to Nicaragua by the senior Iranian official.

“We continue to closely monitor Iran’s relations with countries in the Western Hemisphere, including plans for cooperation with Nicaragua,” a State Department spokesperson said commenting on the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ visit. Foreign Affairs.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met Ortega, who took the opportunity to discuss a subject that fascinates him, sometimes for, sometimes against: the atomic weapons.

“In this world, what would be appropriate is that we were all looking for how to have our armed atomic so that they respect us, because they respect us when they know that the person they want to run over has an atomic weapon,” Ortega said during the meeting broadcast on Nicaraguan television.

“We are not atomic bomb lovers (…) but, with what authority do they want to ban Iran if it wants to build atomic bombs?” Ortega asked the Iranian foreign minister.

This is not the first time that Ortega has claimed the right to have atomic weapons. “That only certain (countries) have the right to have atomic bombs is not democracy, it is tyranny, it is dictatorship,” Ortega said in another speech, in June 2021.

“You might think that what the Sandinista commander said in front of the Iranian foreign minister was only casual. But he is a head of state recognized by the international community represented by the United Nations (UN), so his words should not be trivialized or belittled,” the newspaper editorialized. The press on this occasion.

“Western strategic analysts consider that the greatest international danger is not so much that the Iranian government can produce the atomic weapon, but that by obtaining it, it will send it to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and its most radical international allies that remain in place. confrontation with the United States, which could be called upon to “defend itself” from what they call Western imperialism”, adds the newspaper, recalling that “Ortega, in matters of international relations and global geopolitics, lives more in the past than in the present.” .

Laureano Ortega Murillothe son of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, and who officially presents himself as adviser for investment, trade and international cooperation, has proposed Nicaragua as Iranian Platform for Central America.

“Iran has great technological, industrial and commercial development, from which Nicaragua can greatly benefit, and Nicaragua has and plays a fundamental role in the Central American region as a platform for the export of products, to showcase Iranian products throughout the Central American region, also a very important role in diplomacy and geopolitics”, expressed the son of the presidential couple.

On August 29, 2022, the Nicaraguan regime created the Nicaragua Atomic Energy Commission for peaceful purposes, by Presidential Agreement 16-2022, whose mission is to “promote the development and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes in agriculture, medicine, industry, science and technology, environmental monitoring and other related aspects”.

Similarly, last October, Nicaragua and Russia signed an agreement for the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. “This instrument is consistent with the legal bases for cooperation in the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. With the signing of the roadmap, the guidelines are established to move forward in the field of cooperation of non-energy applications of nuclear and radiological technologies,” the Ortega regime said.

The political analysis bulletin CETCAM, in its January report, underlines that the Ortega regime has strengthened its relations with China, Russia and Iran to counter the international isolation from which it suffers.

“However, these alliances did not have the political and economic effect hoped for by the dictatorship,” he adds. “Beyond sending a reassuring message to its bases, these associations have brought no gain to the dictatorship, on the contrary, the alliance with Russia and its support for aggression against Ukraine raises security concerns for the United States and could again involve Nicaragua in a power struggle”.

For Nicaraguan security expert Elvira Cuadra, Ortega’s request for atomic weapons “because they respect them there” contradicts the very decree that the Nicaraguan Atomic Energy Commission for peaceful purposes signed months ago.

“Daniel Ortega led Nicaragua to become a pariah state. It has maintained a policy of open confrontation against the Western world and democratic countries and is getting closer to authoritarian regimes, regimes marked by serious human rights violations,” he said on the 100 digital platform for hundred Noticias.

“Nicaragua plays no real role in the international confrontation,” he added, saying that Ortega’s statements on this issue “only add fuel to the fire in an unnecessary confrontation and cause concern. the rest of Central America”.

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