Tehran, IRNA – Culture and Islamic Guidance minister said the comprehensive Iran-Venezuela media agreement is an effective step aimed at confronting both countries' shared enemies' media invasions.

The Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili in his Friday meeting with Freddy Alfred Nazareth, Venezuela's Minister of Communication and Information and the Vice-President for Culture and Tourism in the residence of the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Caracas presented a report on broad media activities in Iran.

Esmaili said that the global oppression system's media with their large-scale and fake news dissemination aim at harming the will and resistance power of the Iranian nation ever since the victory of the Islamic Revolution and during the course of the past few months, too, they have intensified their media campaign in the course of their hybrid war against the Iranian nation, but all their hatched plots have been dismantled by the noble and alert Iranian nation.

"Iran and Venezuela, despite their geographical distance from each other, have lots of shared interests, and are side by side each other, like two real neighbors, and they are of course both targeted by the global oppression system," he added.

The Venezuelan vice-president, too, said that mental proximity of the two nations and their viewpoints about Imperialism, and especially the western media and cultural invasion are shared by the two countries, and based on them it is possible to establish different foundations for broadening cooperation.

Freddy Alfred Nazareth further reiterated, "The rich cultures and national identities and beliefs of our countries have mightily dismantled many strong plots of the enemies."

The culture and Islamic guidance minister on the first day of his visit of Venezuela, too, had an interview with that country's Telesur TV and visited the different sections of that TV network.

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