Havana and Tehran, a dangerous pair

By: Pedro Corzo - 27/07/2026

Guest columnist.
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Everything seems to indicate that the highest officials of the United States government have come to the conclusion that coexistence with Castro's totalitarianism is impossible, assuming that it is unavoidable to place the predator disguised as a perpetual victim in the place that corresponds to him.

It is true that relations between Washington and Havana since the Castros came to power have been chaotic with very difficult periods, which paradoxically, in my view, have ended with publicity advantages for the Island, to the detriment of the powerful neighbor trapped by its own strength.

Castro's Cuba has been very adept at presenting itself as the martyred lamb, a story that many Americans have believed for years, not least the recent visits of elected officials, who criticized their government for pressuring the dictatorship, not the regime for repressing the population, much less for the internal blockade imposed on the citizen that has plunged him into extreme misery.

I confess that I watched with great satisfaction the debate at the United Nations between Ambassador Michael Waltz and Bruno Rodríguez, the Castro regime's henchman in a tie, who tried to neutralize Waltz with his usual diatribes, and Waltz, as they say in Cuba, gave him a piece of his mind by simply telling him, "this is not Havana." Furthermore, I am extremely pleased to see how Ambassador Mike Hammer, this country's chargé d'affaires in Cuba, is a defender of the Cuban democratic cause, a sentiment he expresses publicly.

On the other hand, and although Secretary of State Marco Rubio's assertions that the Cuban regime contributes to the development of extremist left-wing groups are not new, the tone in which he expressed them was as if his government was no longer going to tolerate the destructive machinations of the Castro regime.

There is a lot of information that shows that Cuba served the USSR with devotion due to the shared hatred against the United States, the true nourishment of the island's totalitarianism.

Mentioning Iran and Cuba, demonstrating that both countries are conspiring in the mission of supporting left-wing extremists, leads us to recall the close and deep ties of Havana with Tehran, relations that have only sought throughout the years, since 1979, to manage the strengthening of both regimes, along with the mutual willingness to destroy democracies and all forms of life in freedom.

The Islamic Republic of Iran joined the farce of the Non-Aligned Movement, a worldwide organization that was very useful to the defunct Soviet Union when that entity was under the undisputed leadership of Fidel Castro.

The ayatollahs realized that Castro was their equal; they shared a deep hatred for those they call the Great Satan, coveting the same thing: "death to America," a slogan that Iran's first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, used extensively in the early days of the revolt that brought him to power, something similar to what Fidel wrote in a letter to Celia Sánchez in which he indicated that his future and true enemy was going to be the United States.

The first ally of the Islamic revolution in this hemisphere was Fidel Castro. Immediately, both despotisms, which should have been mortal enemies if they had truly been honest in their philosophical proposals, found common political and ideological areas in which to promote their true interests: power and its expansion.

Iranian executioners like Fidel Castro and his acolytes, in my opinion, have never acted based on religious doctrines or ideologies; they are fundamentalists of power, subjects obsessed with control and authority, a condition that explains the close collaboration between the proposals of Castroism and what the ayatollahs promulgate, antagonistic formulas, although opportunists strive to make them compatible.

Castro resorted to Marxist formulas because they provided him with a proposal for vindication and a vital alliance with a great power willing to provide him with resources and a necessary rear guard; the ayatollahs, regardless of their religious beliefs, make pacts with their natural enemies because of shared hatred.

The mission of the masters of Tehran and Havana will never cease to be the destruction of what this country represents. In May 2001, during a conference at the University of Iran's capital, Fidel Castro said, "Iran and Cuba, in mutual cooperation, can bring the United States to its knees." A threat he will always try to fulfill.

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