"It's a danger to the world, these pretensions of the Yankee empire to control the globe," Chavez said, adding it is the common duty of the Venezuelan and Iranian peoples to check the U.S. imperialists' arbitrary practices.

Chavez said the United States and its "lackeys" sought to paint Iran and Venezuela as aggressors. He declared that the two countries should get united to struggle against the U.S. and its lackeys.