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Iran-Venezuela to Form Axis Against US, "Barabarians"
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez (R) attend a ceremony to open the Borzouyeh petrochemical complex in Asalouyeh Seaport, 560 miles southwest of Tehran, July 2, 2007. Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to Iran, which last week launched a delayed fuel rationing scheme, Venezuela's energy minister said in remarks published on Tuesday. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also signed a series of other deals to expand economic cooperation, ranging from setting up a dairy factory in Venezuela to forming an oil company.
"The two countries will defeat the imperialism of North America," a beaming Chavez told a news conference during an official visit to the Islamic Republic."
"When I come to Iran Washington gets upset," he said.
The two presidents - whose countries are members of the OPEC oil producing cartel - earlier attended the ceremony to start building a methanol facility with an annual capacity of 1.65 mln tons on the Islamic Republic's Persian Gulf coast.
"Iran and Venezuela, the axis of unity," read one of many official posters at the site near the port town of Assalouyeh, showing the two leaders hugging each other and shaking hands.
Ahmadinejad, who came to power two years ago pledging to revive the values of the 1979 Islamic revolution - hailed the event as a step towards boosting "brotherly" ties of the two "revolutionary" nations.
Chavez, who last week pushed two US oil giants out of his country as part of his self-styled socialist revolution, said, "This is the unity of the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean Sea."
Iranian officials said a second methanol plant would be set up in Venezuela. Each would cost about $650 mln to $700 mln and take four years to complete. Methanol is an alcohol which can be used as a solvent or an element in fuel.
That would help Iran to access the Latin American market, while Venezuela would get closer to buyers in India and Pakistan.
Chavez, who wants to forge an alliance of leftist states to counter US policies, arrived in Tehran on Saturday after visiting Russia and Belarus.
Iran, Venezuela Underline Unity against US
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The presidents of Iran and Venezuela launched construction of a joint petrochemical plant, strengthening unity between two oil-rich nations staunchly opposed to the United States.
Commenting on the developments in the Middle-East region, Chavez branded those invading Iraq as "barbarians," drawing parallels with the European colonization of Latin America centuries ago.
"Those who try to convince the world that in Iran there are a bunch of barbarians are barbarians themselves."
Iran's Keyhan daily said the two countries were riding on a "global anti-imperialism wave."
http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8604120428
RELATED: Hugo Chavez Meets Ahmadinejad
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/02/18432310.php
"The two countries will defeat the imperialism of North America," a beaming Chavez told a news conference during an official visit to the Islamic Republic."
"When I come to Iran Washington gets upset," he said.
The two presidents - whose countries are members of the OPEC oil producing cartel - earlier attended the ceremony to start building a methanol facility with an annual capacity of 1.65 mln tons on the Islamic Republic's Persian Gulf coast.
"Iran and Venezuela, the axis of unity," read one of many official posters at the site near the port town of Assalouyeh, showing the two leaders hugging each other and shaking hands.
Ahmadinejad, who came to power two years ago pledging to revive the values of the 1979 Islamic revolution - hailed the event as a step towards boosting "brotherly" ties of the two "revolutionary" nations.
Chavez, who last week pushed two US oil giants out of his country as part of his self-styled socialist revolution, said, "This is the unity of the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean Sea."
Iranian officials said a second methanol plant would be set up in Venezuela. Each would cost about $650 mln to $700 mln and take four years to complete. Methanol is an alcohol which can be used as a solvent or an element in fuel.
That would help Iran to access the Latin American market, while Venezuela would get closer to buyers in India and Pakistan.
Chavez, who wants to forge an alliance of leftist states to counter US policies, arrived in Tehran on Saturday after visiting Russia and Belarus.
Iran, Venezuela Underline Unity against US
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The presidents of Iran and Venezuela launched construction of a joint petrochemical plant, strengthening unity between two oil-rich nations staunchly opposed to the United States.
Commenting on the developments in the Middle-East region, Chavez branded those invading Iraq as "barbarians," drawing parallels with the European colonization of Latin America centuries ago.
"Those who try to convince the world that in Iran there are a bunch of barbarians are barbarians themselves."
Iran's Keyhan daily said the two countries were riding on a "global anti-imperialism wave."
http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8604120428
RELATED: Hugo Chavez Meets Ahmadinejad
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/02/18432310.php
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