Tehran, May 26, 2025. Cuban doctors Vicente Vérez and Yuri Valdés, directors of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), were received by the Minister of Health of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi, at the headquarters of that ministry in the Iranian capital. Both relevant Cuban scientists were accompanied by the Cuban ambassador to this country, Jorge F. Lefebre Nicolás.
Tehran, May 19, 2025. The director of the Center for Hemispheric and U.S. Studies (CEHSEU) at the University of Havana, Raúl Rodríguez, participated in the IV Tehran Dialogue Forum, held in Tehran from May 18 to 19, 2025, which was attended by more than 200 delegations from 53 countries, including several foreign ministers and high-ranking officials from those nations.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The U.S. government once again discredits itself by unjustly including Cuba on the List of countries that “do not fully cooperate with its anti-terrorism efforts”.
Once again, the State Department turns the fight against international terrorism into a unilateral political exercise against countries that do not bow to its hegemonic interests.
Tehran, May 05, 2025. A Cuban business delegation, led by the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba, Antonio Luis Carricarte Corona, carried out an intense work agenda in the Persian capital from April 26 to May 3, within the framework of the IRAN-EXPO 2025 event.
Tehran, April 12, 2025. The Cuban ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jorge Lefebre Nicolás, paid a working visit to the Pasteur Institute based in Tehran, a famous scientific institution dedicated to the research and production of biopharmaceutical products widely used in public health. For several decades, the Pasteur Institute has maintained close cooperation in the scientific area with Cuba, and whose most relevant result is the production of a joint vaccine against the coronavirus that has contributed to saving many lives in the Central Asian region.