Legal Commentary

Chavez: Iran Helping Venezuela Search for Uranium

By Big Tent Democrat

Leave it to Hugo Chavez to insert himself on the side of Iran on nukes:

A senior aide to Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, said Friday that Iran was assisting Venezuela in the detection and testing of uranium deposits found in remote areas of Venezuela. The disclosure points to the importance Mr. Chávez has placed on the development of a nuclear energy program.

“Iran is helping us with geophysical aerial probes and geochemical analyses,” Rodolfo Sanz, Venezuela’s minister of basic industries and mining, told reporters outside a meeting of Latin American and African leaders in Porlamar, Venezuela.

Just what this situation needs. Sheesh.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 26, 2009 (boomark / email).