Beyond American Hegemony: Brazil and Turkey hammer out Nuke deal with Iran

[marmar]

from the Independent UK:



US outflanked in bid to bring new sanctions against Iran
Turkey and Brazil say no more punishment is needed after brokering nuclear deal

By Kim Sengupta, Diplomatic Correspondent
Tuesday, 18 May 2010


Iran appeared to draw back yesterday from confrontation over its nuclear programme by agreeing to ship uranium abroad for enrichment, a move described by Western governments as being in the right direction but not enough to avert the threat of harsh UN sanctions.

Under the agreement, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, Iran agrees to send 1200kg of low-enriched uranium to Turkey for storage and will have the right after a year, to receive back 120kg of fuel enriched by Russia and China into rods for a Tehran-based medical research reactor.

If the deal is honoured, it would theoretically inhibit any Iranian plan to develop nuclear weapons. But the announcement risked undermining efforts by the US and its allies to bring China and Russia on board for a fourth round of punitive UN measures against Iran over the nuclear impasse. Moscow and Beijing have been reluctant partners in the debate over isolating Iran, a major trading partner to both.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Luis da Silva, were in Tehran for the final hours of talks on the deal. Afterwards Mr Erdogan said: "My expectation is that after this declaration there will not be a need for sanctions."

Turkey and Brazil currently have seats in the UN Security Council, and thus votes on the decision on sanctions. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held the deal as a "historic turning point" and claimed no further punitive measures against Tehran were necessary. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/us-outflanked-in-bid-to-bring-new-sanctions-against-iran-1975601.html

[scarletwoman]

1. O, bravo, Brazil & Turkey! It's very heartening to see the upstarts sticking it to the Imperialists!

Fuck you, "Western World"! Who needs or wants your corruption and your warmongering? Who needs you dictating to the rest of the world about what you find acceptable?

In a just world, the "Western World" would be the ones subjected to punishing sanctions, for all the misery and death they've perpetrated on the rest of the world.

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