Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, left, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad make a clenched-fist salute while in the Orinoco River basin in southeastern Venezuela for the opening of a new oil well, Sept. 18, 2006. Chavez and Ahmadinejad met a week later in Tehran in order to strengthen the economic links between the two OPEC countries.
(Photo: JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
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