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Iran's president leaves Tehran on a five-day tour of three Latin American countries.

Iran and the three Latin American countries President Raeisi is touring share a common experience of resistance to American hegemony and are at the forefront of creating a rule-based world order.

The expanding cooperation between countries in West Asia and Latin America demonstrates a drastic shift away from the US influence and the emergence of a new "systematic order."

The tendency for expansion of cooperation between countries in West Asia and Latin America demonstrates how the US influence is waning and a new ‘systematic order’ is taking shape.

Iran’s relations with the Bolivarian bloc of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, and more recently, Brazil, have grown warmer in recent years.

Brazil's president has asked the South American countries to create a local currency for their regional trade.

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has visited several Latin American nations as part of Moscow’s efforts to boost trade and investment ties with the countries of that region.

Russia slams the US for its foreign policy malpractices, saying Washington only uses blackmail, threats and sanctions to intimidate other countries across the globe, forcing them to give in to America’s demands.

Lavrov calls on like-minded nations to join forces against the “blackmail” of Western sanctions during a visit to Venezuela.