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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins second trip to Latinamerica
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Sunday night in Lima, Peru, for her second trip to the region this year. Ms Clinton will be participating on Monday in the two-day Organization of American States General Assembly hosted by Peru. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMrs. Clinton, the iron-brained lady, has embarked on yet another round of very diplomatic and very tactful remarks before she visits a country that's paying close attention to her words. Last year, before going to Brazil to peddle her sanctions package, she thought it would be a good idea to threaten the Brazilians to accept her advise or else. Now she goes off again calling names before she gets on the plane.
Jun 07th, 2010 - 06:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mrs. Clinton is so bent on sanctions against Iran that only now she's waking up to an information her intelligence services must have known for days, since it has been circulating in the internet for at least one week: Iran seems to be about to announce it will suspend its uranium enrichment to 20% as soon as the fuel-swap deal it agreed to with Turkey and Brazil is officially accepted by the Vienna Group. She's trying now to counter that announcement, which will be one more nail in the sanctions' coffin, by dismissing it beforehand as a “stunt”.
If Iran were to dump all its nuclear fuel-processing equipment into the Persian Gulf and swear never to look at a centrifuge again, Mrs. Clinton would call this “a stunt” and ask for even “tougher” sanctions.
What Mrs. Clinton should worry about now is being received by any high-level officials in Brazil, after her insulting remarks about the nuclear-fuel swap deal negotiated by Brazil and Turkey with Iran -- another “stunt”, according to her. Brazil must be now thinking of a way to strike a balance between preserving its friendly relationship with the U.S. and treating Mrs. Clinton as she deserves, and she may count herself lucky if she gets to see a deputy foreign minister in Brasília. She may then explain, because the Brazilians will certainly ask her, why the U.S. is so intent on approving sanctions against a country that has shown its willingness to negotiate as long as it is treated with the respect it deserves, instead of being *ordered* to concede everything before negotiations even start. But if she can
Clinton is a Nazi.
Jun 07th, 2010 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Down with the Empire !
Duglas, you're not serious, right? Invoking Godwin argument?! For shame!
Jun 08th, 2010 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This would be one dishonest regime supporting another!! Lies, Argentine lies, Iranian lies, what's the difference. Argentina obviously close to becoming a rogue state. No surprises there, then!!
Jun 10th, 2010 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's fascinating how the comments on this article have nothing to do with the main subject of the article but rather onIran. I suppose the Iranian government has unquestioning cronies in every part of the world who are ready to rise to it's defense, no matter how absurd, blindly supporting a government who reinstalled a president through a corrupt election and brutally repressed it's people when they demonstrated against that election.
Jun 11th, 2010 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sure we should buy the occasional consolatory statements that come from Iran. Why not, even if they make other statements in contradiction within a week. As long as it stands in opposition to the US it must have legitimacy.
Then again the Islamic Republic of Iran wouldn't exist if the US didn't brutally crush, in 1953, the democratically elected government lead by Mohammad Mosaddegh. The seed was planted then in the survivors of that movement to have more ties with Islam in a governmental structure. Over time the constitutional revolution ideas diminished as younger generations focused more on fashioning a government more along the lines of Islam.
-May the Green Revolution continue to grow and be spared much further repression.
Two South American states, Brazil and Venezuela, are known to be “engaged” with Iran in seeking an anti-UN deal on nuclear issues.
Jun 12th, 2010 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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