Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shares a laugh with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez upon his arrival 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)
