Iran and Gambia Resume Relations After 14 Years of Political and Economic Disconnection

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Iran and Gambia Resume Relations After 14 Years of Political and Economic Disconnection

Iran and Gambia have resumed their political and economic relations after a 14-year break.

Iran and Gambia announced that they have resumed their political and economic relations after a 14-year break.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that this decision was made during the visit of Gambia’s Foreign Minister to Tehran, who was in the city to attend the inauguration ceremony of Masoud Pezeshkian, the ninth president of Iran.

The agreement to resume relations was announced after a meeting between Gambia’s Foreign Minister and the acting Foreign Minister of Iran. Iran and Gambia’s relations, with Gambia being a country in West Africa, were cut off by the Gambian government in 2010 during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency.

The Gambian government decided to completely cut political and economic ties with Iran after discovering a shipment of weapons in Nigeria, which was said to have Gambia as its final destination, accusing the Islamic Republic of Iran of interfering in its internal affairs.

Iran denied these accusations, but media outlets, including Reuters, reported quoting diplomats that two Iranians, who were somehow connected to this shipment, were in the Iranian embassy in Nigeria.

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