US: Ahmadinejad "looks for friends in wrong places"

The US Government downplayed the Latin American tour of Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

"With regard to Ahmadinejad's southern tour, he is having a time in Venezuela, looking for friends in wrong places. I think that this continues showing the regime desperation," US Department of State Spokesperson Victoria Nuland commented in a press conference, Efe cited.

Ahmadinejad completed last Friday his second tour of the South American region in six months. This time, he visited Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela.

Last Friday, Republican lawmaker Ileana Ros-Lehtinen urged the Department of State to set a "strategy" in the face of the "increasing Iranian threat" in the region and the presumed "Iran willingness to launch attacks on the continent."

In this regard, Nuland replied, "Our strategy is keeping on working with all our allies in the continent, as we do it with the countries of all over the world, to keep ourselves united in support of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council."