{"id":386017,"date":"2010-03-03T19:16:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/iran-looms-large-lula-clinton-meeting-40308\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T00:16:35","slug":"iran-looms-large-at-lula-clinton-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386017","title":{"rendered":"Iran Looms Large at Lula-Clinton Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.03.10 09:03 AM posted by Ray Walser<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinton1.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clinton1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the fourth <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/thf_media\/2010\/pdf\/wm2820.pdf\" >leg of her Latin American trip<\/a>, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Brazil\u0092s President Lula da Silva **He presides over a Brazil that is rising in confidence, economic power, and global influence but myopic in its treatment of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary will have to make a strong pitch to convince President Lula da Silva to be wary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h7MC5FHkygD1UJQWg5W3V_gWbXxQD9E71JAO0\" >budding Iran-Brazil<\/a> connection which might produce sanctions-evading financial ties and cooperation to develop Iran\u0092s nuclear potential.** The Secretary\u0092s message is: \u0093with influence comes responsibility.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Thus far the Brazilian stance on Iran has not been helpful. *Brazil\u0092s foreign minister Celso Anorim recently announced he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Sanctions+Iran+would+ineffective+Brazil\/2541848\/story.html\" >doesn\u0092t believe sanctions will be effective<\/a>.* Lula apparently sees sanctions as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/03\/opinion\/03iht-edsweig.html\" >a path to military force<\/a> and ardently believes his country\u0092s transition to democracy and its peaceful nuclear program in threat-free South America will carry weight with insecure zealots in volatile Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u0092s diplomatic stance on Iran reflects classic Latin American traits: non-intervention, endless dialogue, misplaced neutrality, and a deep distrust of American leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Unquestionably a democrat at home, Lula appears to loose sight of these values when dealing with Iran and other nations like Cuba and Venezuela. **Insightful critics like Foreign Policy\u0092s editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/internacional\/textos\/secretos\/Lula\/elpepiint\/20091129elpepiint_6\/Tes\" >Moises Naim ask<\/a> why a man who was once jailed by Brazil\u0092s military regime as a labor and democracy activist can as president side with the jailers and oppressors of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Although an uphill struggle, Secretary of State Clinton needs to make it clear to Lula that the volatile combination of a budding military dictatorship, theocratic repression, support for terrorism, and nuclear weapons ambitions make Iran the most imminent threat to world peace in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/03\/iran-looms-large-at-lula-clinton-meeting\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/03\/&#8230;inton-meeting\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.03.10 09:03 AM posted by Ray Walser On the fourth leg of her Latin American trip, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Brazil\u0092s President Lula da Silva **He presides over a Brazil that is rising in confidence, economic power, and global influence but myopic in its treatment of Iran. The Secretary will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}