Thursday, January 12, 2012

Cuba - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad goes west as sanctions hit home

Published on Jan 11, 2012 by
http://www.euronews.net/ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has met Cuba's President Raul Castro as the Iranian leader continued his drive to rally support amid growing tensions over his country's nuclear programme.

The visit was overshadowed by the killing of a nuclear scientist in a car bomb attack that Iran has blamed on Israel and the US.

The trip was an occasion to strengthen already strong economic and political ties. Cuba, like the other countries on Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour - Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador - have endorsed Tehran's right to develop nuclear power.

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