Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L), smile at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on January 9, 2012.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) embraces his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales (L) during a welcoming ceremony in Tehran on October 26, 2010.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - MARCH 2: Iranian ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi (L) embraces Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (C) as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) looks on, at Maliki's office in the heavily fortified Green Zone March 2, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) welcomes his Algerian counterpart President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the presidential palace in Tehran on August 11, 2008.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) hugs with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga (R) as Iran's first vice-president Mohammad Reza Rahimi (L) looks on prior to a meetings in Tehran on March 6, 2011.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) embraces Mussa Abu Marzuq (2nd R), the exiled number two of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, as Iran's top nuclear negotiator and head of Iran's national security council Saeed Jalili (L) looks on in Tehran on February 1, 2009. Hamas's political supremo Khaled Meshaal ruled out any "permanent ceasefire" until Israel ends its crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) embraces visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he arrives at The Presidential Palace in Kabul on March 10, 2010. Ahmadinejad said Iran does not consider the presence of foreign troops a solution for peace in Afghanistan. His visit overlaps with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates touring the country for a review of the US and NATO troop surge aimed at ending eight years of war.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, hugs a member of the Kuwait Delegation before he addresses the 66th General Assembly on September 22, 2011 at the United Nations in New York.
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President Ahmadinejad (C) hugs the President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (R) after speaking during the addresses of the 63rd annual United Nations General Assembly meeting September 23, 2008 at UN headquarters in New York City.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hugs a supporter upon arriving to cast his ballot inside a polling station in Tehran during the second round of parliamentary elections on April 25, 2008. Iranians started voting today in the second round of legislative elections expected to tighten the conservatives' grip on parliament after reformists were hurt by pre-poll disqualifications.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) embraces a worshipper during the weekly prayer at Tehran university on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, on September 5, 2008.
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President Ahmadinejad (R) stands next to his school teacher (C) during a campaign rally in Tehran on June 2, 2009. A defiant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed to continue resisting global pressures and walk the path he chose four years ago if elected to a second term as Iran's president.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (top) looks at judiciary chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi (R) as he embraces Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the latter was sworn in for a second four-year term during a ceremony in parliament in Tehran on August 5, 2009. Ahmadinejad was sworn in as Iranian president as riot police broke up opposition protests over an election that triggered the worst turmoil in the Islamic republic's history. Framed pictures are portraits of Iranian "martyrs."
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Tehran, IRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad (R) embraces a member of Naturei Karta (Orthodox Jews United against Zionism) during a controversial conference aimed at breaking taboos on the Holocaust in Tehran, 12 December 2006. The conference caused international outrage mounted over its hosting of "revisionist" historians who cast doubt on the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embraces a boy during the "Quds Day" rally, an annual regime-sanctioned demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel, in Tehran on August 26, 2011. The "Jeruslem Day" rally is held every year on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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