Venezuela Iran
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to a translation during a ceremony to sign agreements at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. Ahmadinejad visited with Chavez as tensions rose with the U.S. over Tehran's nuclear program and a death sentence against an American man convicted of working for the CIA. Venezuela is the first leg of a four-nation tour that will also take Ahmadinejad to Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)