South Africa helps Iran on its post electoral issues

South Africa is considered one of the United States’ two strategic partners on the continent, along with Nigeria, But the U.S. and South African administrations have expressed differences respect to the situations in Zimbabwe, Iran, and Iraq, and U.S. officials have expressed frustration with the South African government on the positions that it took while serving on the United Nations Security Council.

We can see that South Africa worried about the situation of what was happening especially in Iran, and it is because same things were happening in the country, like for example when the Assembly chose as President Nelson Mandela, they discovered that his release followed years of secret contacts between the ANC and key white business and political figures, causing many difficulties, including several outbreaks of violence that threatened to destroy the peace process, something similar that happened in Iran.

South Africa is member of what is called the Non-Aligned Movement, or friends of Iran, and the principal objective is to help the damaged people with the consequences of what the post electoral issues brought, one of the purposes is to make Iran to abandon their nuclear weapons so they can prevent a lot of disasters.

South Africa started to have relations with Iran since the revolution of 1979, and they had good relations in the fields of trade, science and technology, defense, medicine, energy and mining. After the revolution in that country, Iran severed relations with South Africa in February 1979 and imposed a total trade and made boycott against South Africa by the promulgation of an Act in the Majlis (The Iranian Parliament).

In June 1993 the Iranian Representative in Berne, Ambassador Mohammed Reza Alborzi, informed the South African Ambassador that the Iranian Government was considering re-establishing contact with South Africa on a wide front, until now they have been such a very close country helping each other.

International nations and cooperation

http://www.dfa.gov.za/foreign/bilateral/iran.html

Consulted on 04/11/09

International crisis group

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6351

Consulted on 04/11/09

South Africa assists Iran

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