Iran

Executive summary

Cuba's medical presence in Iran dates to the 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake, followed by a contracted teaching brigade in 1992 and a 2016 bilateral memorandum; the mission is now inactive, with zero active personnel and no brigade dispatched even during the Covid-19 pandemic, suggesting a quiet institutional wind-down rather than a documented rupture. Official figures show no apparent inflation, with a modest historical total of 39 collaborators. While no specific political mobilisation or propaganda activity is documented for this mission, the profile explicitly cites labour-rights violations under Cuban legal instruments—Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code article 176, and Decree 306/2012—implicating the machinery of forced labour disguised as international solidarity. Even inactive missions leave behind a paper trail of coercion.

Mission data

Research profile