Iran prepared to provide technologies to produce medicine in Venezuela http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902181385

Iranian envoy to Venezuela voiced Tehran's preparedness to provide Venezuela with the required technologies to produce medicine and construct medical laboratories in the Latin American country.Iran has moved to expand ties with Latin America in recent years and it has worked out an eye-catching number of economic, political and cultural agreements on mutual cooperation with what was formerly known as the US backyard.

The move by Tehran which gained a much faster momentum under President Ahmadinejad has raised eyebrows in Washington.Venezuela's Ambassador to Tehran had announced in December that over 300 agreements and contracts as well as 80 special projects have recently come into effect between the two countries. Iran has also recently augmented efforts to help other countries with a wide range of medical aids, including transfer of technology for drug-manufacturing, construction of labs and other medical facilities, specially in the third-world countries.