Way to go guys, now you have helped them get a foothold in the hemisphere.


CARACAS (Reuters) - Iran is gaining influence in Latin America as the region turns away from Washington and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad courts new allies to counter U.S. efforts to isolate his government.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and other leftist leaders from Cuba to Ecuador, many of them sympathetic to Chavez's anti-U.S. rhetoric, have struck energy, trade and investment deals with Iran.

The growing ties come despite international criticism of Tehran's nuclear enrichment program and a possible new U.N. sanctions resolution against it.


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Anti Us countries are bound to find alliances somewhere. We can't kepp them all happy.

This is a PR stunt. Two mouthy guys and both want to lead the Anti-US bloc; two leaders, not happenming. This is just media fodder.

Iran is strengthening ties with the region.


CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The leaders of Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States while the Iranian president reached out to a new ally in Bolivia and declared that together, "no one can defeat us."

After being vilified during his U.N. visit this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled on to friendlier territory Thursday, first stopping in Bolivia — where he pledged $1 billion in investment — and then visiting Venezuela to meet President Hugo Chavez.

"Together we are surely growing stronger, and in truth no one can defeat us," the Iranian leader said through an interpreter. Apparently referring to the U.S., he said, "Imperialism has no other option: Respect the peoples (of the world) or accept defeat."


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This isn't a big surprise. They are on pretty friendly terms anyway. They actually deserve one another.

Two oil producers becoming that friendly? Sounds like a Bush international plot to me.