Let’s face it: Hillary Clinton is one hell of a dominatrix.
At first the United States Secretary of State said the Brazil-Turkey mediation to get Iran to accept a nuclear fuel swap was destined to fail. Then the US State Department said it was the “last chance” for an agreement without sanctions. And finally, less than 24 hours after a successful agreement in Tehran, Hillary whips the UN Security Council into submission and triumphantly proclaims to the world a draft resolution for a fourth UN round of sanctions against Iran has been reached.
She framed the drive towards sanctions as “an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days”. Wait a minute. Immediately after a genuine – and fruitful – mediation on a very sensitive dossier by two emerging powers – and honest brokers – in the multipolar world, Brazil and Turkey, Washington and its two European Union
allies at the Security Council, France and Britain, torpedo it. Is this what passes for global “diplomacy”?
No wonder key US allies Brazil and Turkey, both non-permanent members of the Security Council, and both key regional powers, were fuming after such a public slapping. Brazil at first said it would not even discuss sanctions at the UN. Then Brazil and Turkey sent a formal letter to the UN, asking to be part of the negotiations of the “Iran Six” about the sanctions “to prevent the adoption of measures going against a peaceful solution”.
Brazilian President Luiz In…
