Is it true love? (Chavez and Ahmadinejad)
Chavez: Bolivarian Revolution brother to Iran's Islamic Revolution
Patrick J. O'Donoghue, VHealine.com, Venezuela's Electronic News, Sunday, July 30, 2006
VHeadline.com News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue writes: During his visit to Iran, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has given Iran his country's unconditional support in the common struggle against the US government.
Chavez Frias says his country's support for Iran is based on the latter's spirit of nationalism and determination to pursue an independent stance in a multi-polar world....
Iran's Ahmadinejad meets 'brother' ChavezCNN, Monday, July 31, 2006 Posted: 0011 GMT
....Following talks, Chavez pledged that his country would "stay by Iran at any time and under any condition," state television reported.
Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit.
"I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after meeting Chavez," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state-run television. "We think Iran and Venezuela should share all experiences of each other, stay by each other and they have to be supporters of each other."
The Venezuelan leader has been on a trip that included a visit to Belarus where he met with authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is dubbed "Europe's last dictator" by Washington and shares Chavez's strong anti-U.S. views.
Earlier this week he secured an arms agreement with Russia in Moscow that prompted the U.S. criticism.
While in Qatar on Friday, Chavez said it meant Venezuela could eventually export guns and ammunition to Bolivia and other allies once it opens a factory to make Russian-developed Kalashnikov rifles under license....
Khamenei calls Hezbollah chief 'world favourite'Iranmania.com, Sunday, July 30, 2006
LONDON, July 30 (IranMania) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei feted Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as the "people's favourite person all over the world", Iranian state television said.
His comments coincided with Nasrallah vowing to strike cities in the centre of Israel and declaring that the Jewish state had failed to win any military victory after days of bloody clashes with his Shiite militant group, AFP reported.
"The courageous resistance of the Lebanese people and Hezbollah is the manifestation of the rebellious spirit of Muslim and Arab nations against America," Khamenei was quoted as saying.
"Today all the Arab and Muslim nations are supporting Hezbollah. Since it is resisting America and the Zionist regime, the leader of Hezbollah has become the people's favourite person all over the world," Khamenei insisted.
The supreme leader made the comments in a meeting with visiting Venezuelan president and fellow anti-American Hugo Chavez....
Iran, Venezuela sign 11 MoUsIRNA, Tehran, July 31
Iran and Venezuela signed here Sunday 11 memoranda of understanding on expansion of bilateral cooperation in different fields.
The agreements were inked in presence of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez before the latter wound up his official two-day visit to Tehran....
