Chavez to US: Stop your Iran threats

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez advises Washington to stop making threats against Iran and Venezuela in hopes of seeing lower oil prices. Chavez suggested that wealthy nations, including the United States, can end the surge in oil prices by refraining from blaming crude exporting nations and by pulling their troops out of Iraq. 'They want to blame us: the Arabs and Venezuela. We are not to blame. Withdraw the troops from Iraq and you'll see how oil prices will drop,' he said Thursday. 'Stop the threats against Iran and Venezuela, oil-producing countries, and you'll see prices will tend to decline,' Chavez said in an address to visiting delegates from Non-Aligned Movement countries.