Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called on nations around the world to help stop what he says is a planned US attack on Iran. Chavez, speaking one day after the UN Security Council voted to tighten sanctions on Iran over Tehran’s refusal to curtail its nuclear program, cited a Russian press report which purportedly details the time and place of a attack on Iran by the United States, which he has dubbed “the empire.” “The empire is moving aircraft carriers and has been moving troops on Iran,” said Chavez, speaking on his broadcast program “Hello, Mr President.” Hopefully the world “will halt this imperial craziness of attacking whomever it pleases. Today it may be Iran, Chavez said, “but tomorrow it could be Belarus, Venezuela, or anyone they dislike.”