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Venezuela's Chavez backs Iran in nuclear dispute

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended Iran's "legitimate right" to develop nuclear power for peaceful energy uses, warning the US not to attack Iran. "We demand that the North American empire respect the Iranian people and the peoples of the world," said Chavez Sunday on his program "Hello President."

 

"The only country that has developed atomic bombs and dropped them on entire peoples is the North American empire... They don't have the morality to be giving anybody lessons," he said.  A military attack on Iran "would be madness," Chavez added. "The consequences would be terrible." (AP)

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.16.07, 00:05