You may have seen Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arm-in-arm with the Iran’s,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week, he was celebrating a deal to move Iran’s uranium payloads to Turkey. The deal happened a day before the U.S. announced a conclusive agreement with the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran. The fact that Brazil was involved with the deal has many in the U.S. shaking their head.
Brazil opposes sanctions as ineffective and likely to intensify the conflict. As a developing country that has defended its own nuclear aspirations against international pressure, Brazil strongly identifies with Iran. Celso Amorim, the Brazilian foreign minister who represented the country at the United Nations when the United States used inconclusive evidence to build a case against Iraq, has described this weekend’s talks as an effort to prevent that from happening again.
However, some say that Brazil does not identify with Iran as a budding nation, but only as a way to oppose the international dominance of the United States. Mr. da Silva, who is very popular in his country, has challenged the United States on everything from trade and climate change to last year’s coup in Honduras to Washington’s longstanding embargo against Cuba. Alienating the United States has not exactly rattled the Obama administration, they wished Mr. da Silva luck in Iran but counter that it will continue with sanctions if Brazil’s vote is there or not.
Brazil opposes sanctions as ineffective and likely to intensify the conflict. As a developing country that has defended its own nuclear aspirations against international pressure, Brazil strongly identifies with Iran. Celso Amorim, the Brazilian foreign minister who represented the country at the United Nations when the United States used inconclusive evidence to build a case against Iraq, has described this weekend’s talks as an effort to prevent that from happening again.
However, some say that Brazil does not identify with Iran as a budding nation, but only as a way to oppose the international dominance of the United States. Mr. da Silva, who is very popular in his country, has challenged the United States on everything from trade and climate change to last year’s coup in Honduras to Washington’s longstanding embargo against Cuba. Alienating the United States has not exactly rattled the Obama administration, they wished Mr. da Silva luck in Iran but counter that it will continue with sanctions if Brazil’s vote is there or not.
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