Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega defended North Korea’s right to pursue nuclear weapons during a meeting with the Iranian foreign ministry on Thursday, a video recording of the session shows.

Ortega said that while his country was not a “lover of the atomic weapon,” Western countries had no right to criticize nations like North Korea and Iran for seeking nuclear weapons.

“What authority (do Western powers have) to want to prohibit Iran … if it wants to make atomic bombs, (or) the DPRK?” Ortega said.

Ortega said the “Yankees” were the “greatest criminals” for using nuclear weapons against Japan in World