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The deal, negotiated by Turkey and Brazil, calls for Iran to ship 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) of low enriched uranium to Turkey, where it would be stored. In exchange, after one year, Iran would have the right to receive about 265 pounds of material enriched to 20 percent from Russia and France.

On Monday, Brazil and Turkey brokered a deal with Iran that would see it trading enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. Observers in Germany see a diplomatic coup for the rising powers, but warn that it could just be another ploy on the part of Iran.

Iran's nuclear fuel swap deal with Brazil and Turkey could be a positive step forward in resolving the international impasse over its nuclear program. Even as the United States is stepping up efforts toward UN-mandated fresh sanctions against Iran, it is praiseworthy that members of the international community have stuck to diplomatic means to defuse the tension.

Last week, Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Reccep Erdogan announced a breakthrough agreement on the Iranian nuclear impasse that they claimed would make further sanctions on Iran "unnecessary." The agreement, accepted by Iran, was immediately rejected by the US and its European allies, who chose instead to continue the three-decade long US effort to strangle and isolate Iran by all means available. In what Graham Fuller, a top-ranking former intel official, called "a stunningly insulting response," Hillary Clinton proudly announced consensus for a fourth round of sanctions against Iran days later, which she called "as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Iran in the past few days as any we could provide."

Brazil's economy grew at its fastest rate in at least 14 years in the first three months of 2010, official figures have shown.

Much has been discussed on the root causes for the current financial crisis, including but not limited to lessons on monetary policy, financial sector regulations, accounting rules. This note aims to stimulate debate and discussions on some of the pro-cyclical features in the system, possible remedial measures, and how monetary and fiscal authorities can play their professional roles at times of severe market distress. It also touches upon China's financial sector reform and macroeconomic policy to counter slowdown in economic growth. The major points here were presented at the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in San Paulo, Brazil on November 15, 2008.

Brazil and Turkey, which were represented by their presidents in the talks, invested significant diplomatic cache in the negotiations. It is rare for non-permanent members of the Security Council to intervene in a process led by nuclear powers, and in many ways the result could be seen as a revolt by smaller powers over the rights to nuclear power and prestige.

The efforts of Brazil and Turkey to find a negotiated solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, which generated a negotiated agreement with Iran last week, must be seen in the context of a growing challenge to the international political order.

All this signals a clear shift in the development agenda. Traditionally, this was an agenda generated in the developed world that was implemented in - and, indeed, often imposed on - the developing world. The United States, Europe, and Japan will continue to be significant sources of economic resources and ideas, but the emerging markets are now entering this arena and will become significant players. Countries such as Brazil, China, India, and South Africa will be both donors and recipients of resources for development and of best practices for how to use them. A large portion of the world's poor live within their borders, yet they have achieved new respect on the global scene in economic, political, and intellectual terms. In fact, development has never been something that the rich bestowed on the poor but rather something the poor achieved for themselves. It appears that the Western powers are finally waking up to this truth in light of a financial crisis that, for them, is by no means over.

Despite the financing challenges, Argentina's economy has grown by more than 8 percent a year since 2003, and many industries have benefited from the devaluation. Argentina has resumed exporting cars to Brazil. Tourism has flourished from an influx of Brazilians and other foreigners. In the end, Argentina may have one more lesson to teach Greece: the danger of fatalism. "A lot of people were saying that Argentina would never recover, that the peso would never regain value, that this country was damned," said Mr. Kerner, the analyst. "And it didn't happen."

Se admitirmos que os efeitos das prováveis sanções serão mínimos, qual o sentido da tentativa do governo Obama sabotar o esforço diplomático do Brasil e da Turquia? Trata-se, ao que tudo indica, de uma resposta às crescentes críticas na sociedade norte-americana - provavelmente devido às eleições no Congresso norte-americano em novembro -, de que os EUA estão aceitando o seu declínio, ao permitir que países emergentes estejam preenchendo o vácuo de poder na política mundial. Talvez o custo dessa irresponsabilidade seja alto demais.

O acordo nuclear entre o Brasil, a Turquia e o Irã se gue, ponto a ponto, todas as solicitações que o presidente Barack Obama havia exposto em carta a seu colega Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, datada de 20 de abril, apenas três semanas antes, portanto, da viagem de Lula ao Irã, da qual resultou o acordo. A Folha obteve, com ex clusividade, cópia integral da carta, na qual Obama es creve que o objetivo era ofe recer "explicação detalhada" de sua perspectiva "e sugerir um caminho a seguir".

Um dia depois de a secretária de Estado americana, Hillary Clinton, criticar a aproximação do Brasil com o Irã, o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voltou nesta sexta-feira a defender o acordo nuclear que mediou ao lado da Turquia.

La mediación de Lula con Irán enturbia el foro de la Alianza de Civilizaciones.- Moratinos defiende el "tremendo esfuerzo de Brasil y Turquía"

Según publicó la prensa paulista, el presidente Obama envió una carta a sus pares de Brasil y Turquía en la que apoyaba un acuerdo similar al alcanzado hace diez días en Teherán. La Casa Blanca insiste con más sanciones.

The United States reached agreement Tuesday with Russia, China and other major powers on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would modestly expand and stiffen sanctions on Iran for its failure to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

China and India stand to lose a lot from reducing their trade with Iran, so the Americans will find it difficult to preserve these giants' commitment to sanctions.

The uranium transfer deal transforms Iran and Turkey into strategic allies without undermining Turkey's standing in the West.

As President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heads to Tehran this weekend to make what many Western diplomats consider a last-ditch attempt at persuading Iran to temper its nuclear ambitions, officials in Washington have expressed concern that the effort could backfire, helping the Islamic republic to block - or at least delay - the United States and its allies from imposing sanctions.

No fundamental, os termos do acordo são os mesmos da proposta oferecida por Estados Unidos, Rússia e França há oito meses, pela qual o Irã deveria entregar ao redor de 70% do seu urânio enriquecido a mais de 5%. A própria Agência Internacional de Energia Atômica já calculara que a neutralização de 1,2 toneladas do minério seria o suficiente para anular qualquer projeto atômico de caráter militar. A formação de alianças fora da órbita imperial, porém, é tudo o que não interessa a Washington e seus subservientes associados europeus. O artigo é de Breno Altman.