Venezuelan leader pledges unrestricted support for Iran

The Venezuelan regime has pledged unrestricted support for the Islamist regime in Iran.

Following formal talks, Hugo Chavez pledged that his government would "stay by Iran at any time under any condition," AP reports, citing Iranian state television.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke effusively about Chavez: "I feel I have met a brother and a trench mate after meeting Chavez," Ahmadinejad said in the state TV report. "We think Iran and Venezuela should share all experiences of each other, stay by each other and they have to be supporters of each other."

"We do not have any limitation in cooperation," Ahmadinejad said. "Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible."