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Army General Raul Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, sent a message to his counterpart Hassan Rouhani, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to express condolences after the death on January 8th of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian president and one of the historic leaders of the 1979’s Islamic Revolution.

In his message, the Cuban dignitary asked to extend his sympathies to the relatives of the late Iranian leader.

The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Hassan Rohaní, sent his most sincere congratulations to the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, as well as to the government and to the great people of Cuba, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.

In his message, the president of the Persian nation expresses his desire to see the continuity and increasing strengthening of bilateral relations between Cuba and Iran in the light of joint efforts.

Students at Imam Sadegh University in Teheran paid tribute to the memory of the Cuban Revolution's historic leader, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. The Cuban Ambassador Vladimir Gonzalez Quesada was between the speakers at the event. Heads of missions and diplomats from other ALBA-TCP member countries represented in the Persian nation, attended as guests.

During the ceremony of donation of the Complete Works of the Liberator Simon Bolivar by the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the Universities of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba'i and Islamic Azad, the Iranian academic sector expressed their condolences on the recent death of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.