Ahmadinejad and Chavez Ride a Downward Spiral

"Despite being thousands of miles apart, the regimes of Hugo Rafael Chavez in Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran are starting to look quite similar.

Both are becoming more fragile, not so much due to the strength of the popular opposition, but due to the blunders they commit.

Mounting Tension in Iran

In Iran, Ahmadinejad's honeymoon is over. A few weeks ago more than half of......."