Iran ready to supply defense equipment to Bolivia: minister

TEHRAN - Iran is ready to meet Bolivia's demands for defense equipment and advanced technologies to help it counter threats, said Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani when meeting with his Bolivian counterpart in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday.

"We maintain that improving the bilateral defense relations will lead to increasing the Bolivian government's deterrence power," Ashtiani was quoted by the official news agency IRNA as saying.

Ashtiani said Iran and Bolivia have common enemies, whose objective is to weaken and defeat the independent states.

For his part, Bolivian Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo Aguilar stressed that nations that make efforts to secure their freedom should unite with each other through different forms and ways.

Novillo Aguilar voiced his country's readiness for cooperation with Iran in the areas of fighting narcotics trafficking, security, defense and science.