News - Middle East: Venezuela and Iran are weighing plans to strengthen cooperation in various fields, and rapidly implement joint projects, calling for heightened vigilance in the face of US-led foreign pressures.

The plans were discussed during a meeting between Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Caracas on Friday.

The meeting revolved around ways to implement memoranda of understanding and joint projects between Tehran and Caracas.
Maduro and Amir-Abdollahian also underlined the need to boost exchange of viewpoints between officials from the two countries.

Amir-Abdollhian described the Venezuelan president’s trip to Iran in mid-June last year as a turning point in mutual ties between the two countries, and called for closer cooperation.

Maduro, for his part, pointed to the extensive experience of Venezuela and Iran in the face of common challenges, and stressed the need for improvement of bilateral ties.