“We’re not going to make an atomic bomb, so don’t bother us like with Iran,” Chavez said. “We’re going to develop nuclear energy with peaceful purposes.”
Chavez is a close ally of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President, who’s under international sanctions for continuing with the country’s nuclear energy program under suspicions by US and its allies.
According to Robert Morgenthau, New York’s District Attorney, Venezuela might help Iran skirt sanctions imposed by the United Nations and US by transfering funds through the Venezuelan financial system.
