Brazil’s Lula may have ‘scored a goal’ on Iran
BRASILIA — For admirers of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — and there are many — the deal reached with Iran over its nuclear activities was a diplomatic triumph seized with high-stakes, last-minute flair. For the United States and its allies skeptical over Tehran’s track record of broken promises, though, the accord is a vexing problem, an obstacle to UN sanctions on Iran they had been pushing hard for. Lula himself crowed from Tehran that “diplomacy emerged victorious.” Unspoken but implied was that he had pulled off a coup in the last year of his mandate, boosting Brazil’s profile on the international stage to the stature it badly wants: that of a global player deserving of a permanent UN Security Council seat. “If Iran complies with this deal, Brazil will have scored a goal with its diplomacy,” opined one analyst to AFP, professor Marcelo Coutinho of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Rubens Figuereido, a specialist at the University of Sao Paulo, agreed. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100519com3.html |
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