Iran, Venezuela seal anti-US alliance
Afp, Asaluyeh
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez sealed their anti-American alliance Monday by laying the foundation stone of a joint petrochemical plant. The two leaders pledged to "stand against all enemies," a reference to the United States, as they inaugurated construction of a 700-million-dollar methanol plant in the Asaluyeh industrial zone on the Gulf coast. Chavez, on his first trip to Iran, promised to "unite the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean" and even adopted Persian slang for the benefit of reporters assembled for the occasion. "We as two united countries will build a better world. I thank God that Iran and Venezuela are standing together forever," he said on the last day of a trip, which has already taken him to Russia and Belarus.
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