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."
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.
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.
Beyond the usual anti-American rhetoric, some analysts say that Iran is trying to avoid sanctions and resolve tensions with Washington over its nuclear program.
The deal widens a divide between a group of countries led by the U.S., on the one hand, and developing nations on the other, over the right of Iran and other developing nations to use nuclear energy.
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.
Earlier on Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the nuclear fuel swap with Iran was a "positive step" and it was waiting for Tehran to provide full written details, as China and Lebanon also voiced their support for the new deal.
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.
Brimming with confidence, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva is raising his country's global status with increasing forays into international politics. In his most recent coup, he convinced Iran to agree to a controversial nuclear deal. Could it offer an opportunity to avoid both sanctions and war?
Russia and Iran publicly traded barbs on Wednesday, showing strains in their longstanding alliance because of Moscow's support for a new set of American-backed sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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