Iran and Cuba: Soft Resistance

As it was predicted, Havana-Washington diplomatic relations re-establishment had no influence on the domestic and foreign policy of Cuba. Cuba's new resolution on the political status of Puerto Rico has been issued at the UN about two months ago. Accordingly, Washington is requested to stop Puerto Rico colonialism and occupation as well as releasing Oscar Lopez, the Puerto Rican independence activist and political prisoner. The UN Decolonization Committee has already adopted more than 30 resolutions and decisions on the issue of Puerto Rico, all submitted by Cuba over the past 15 years. While Puerto Rico is scheduled to be annexed to the U.S. in January 2021. 
Cuba proved a reality; the strategy of "soft resistance" or "diplomatic resistance" is the most effective forms of resistance in the 21st century. Although Washington has maintained the sanctions against Cuba under the pressures of the system, but it cannot be denied that the Cuban political pressures overcame Washington. Both Democratic and Republican parties agreed to the resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba as well as remove its name from the list of countries sponsors of terrorism. 
The Castro medical diplomacy could obviously win the Washington's militaristic foreign policy. As a result of this diplomacy, many doctors are sent to the crisis and war zones on behalf of Cuba to treat the injured and patients. And it should be add that Cuba could increase its friends in Latin America in the current century. 
Iran could also win its regional oppositions in the field of foreign policy by resorting to the model of "soft resistance" and as Bob Corker confessed, Iran could change the power's balance of the Middle East. If Iran uses this model as its foreign policy strategy, then more successes are achieved.