They'll always be bosom buddies...

Style icons Daniel Ortega and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got together over the weekend to basically plot world domination -- and, most likely, raid each other's wardrobes. What in the world do Nicaragua and Iran have in common? According to Ahmadinejad, "The Iranian and Nicaraguan nations share great potentials and capabilities. They can help each other in the path of independence and freedom." That roughly translates to, "We hate the West and want to present a unified front." Though Ortega stopped to pay sentimental tribute at the tomb of the Ayatollah Khomeini, don't expect Nicaragua to suddenly turn into an Islamic state. Do expect, however, Ortega to tow the line as the puppy of Hugo Chavez (who helped him get elected) in cementing an anti-West alliance that reaches to the south of the U.S. all the way to soon-to-be-nuclear Tehran.

And so much for any presumptions about the newer, mellowed-out Marxist Ortega. The Islamic Republic News Agency reports him "shouting with clenched fists" at a "ceremony on international resistance":

"Viva Iranian nation, Viva Islamic combatants, Viva Latin American and Asian nations until ever-lasting freedom and victory!"