From the "Birds of a feather flock together" Department

Venezuela has agreed to sell oil to Iran: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.

Undoubtedly, the motivation here is a common hatred of the United States; Hugo Chavez' government does not want to see a fellow anti-American ally go down. Still, the fact that Iran has to do this is a clear signal of the regime's vulnerability. If the West ever had the cojones, it COULD take down the Mullahs................