SPINWATCH-Brazil key to curbing Iran's influence http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/23/1593789/brazil-key-to-curbing-irans-influence.html

(#1 ) Iran is a pariah regime. Claiming only peaceful purposes for its nuclear program, Tehran is processing uranium in quantities that say otherwise.(lie#2)Hugo Chávez and Ahmadinejad have a close personal relationship based on their anti-Americanism.

(lie# 3)The Brazilian Foreign Ministry, for example, hasn't figured out how to contain Chávez and his allies in Latin America. Still, Lula's wariness of Chavismo is well known and the hopes are that Brazil's burgeoning ties with Iran put a dent in Chávez's influence there.

(lie# 4)All the same, it was jarring to hear Lula compare Ahmadinejad's brutal repression of the opposition after the June 12 fraudulent election to street clashes between fans of rival soccer clubs in Rio de Janerio. How quickly the Brazilian president forgot his own struggles against the military dictatorship (1964-1985)!

comment-first off this was published by miami herald wich is a known mouthpiece for washington and its rightwing think tanks that promote lies and propaganda against latin america catering to the anti venezuela and anti cuba pundits...(U.S. Paid 10 Journalists for Anti-Castro Reports http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/washington/09cuba.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ) 

now the author of this garbage propaganda is ... Marifeli Pérez-Stable is a professor at Florida International University and senior non-resident fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.lets see who hes affiliated with(Inter-American Dialogue in Washington-Sources of Funding-Governments Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)World Bank)Inter-American Development Bank)GE Foundation)http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=20 

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now onto the lies and claims made (LIE #1 )(IRAN IS A DEVELOPED NATION WICH IS EMERGING AS ONE OF THE MOST TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCED COUNTRIES ,(Iranian science to become a major contributor to stem cell science http://www.isgmit.org/projects-storage/StemCell/stem_cell_iran.pdf  Iran's science progress fastest in world: Canadian report http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118977&sectionid=3510208  

IT IS ALSO A COUNTRY WITH A ROBUST DIVERSE ECONOMY,AND  HAS EXCELLENT FORM OF CONSTITUTIONALISM http://www.scribd.com/doc/24001578/Theocratic-Constitutionalism-An-Introduction-to-a-New-Global-Legal-Ordering  

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(lie#2)Chavez is not anti american..."We Are Not Anti-US, We Are Anti-Imperialist" Hugo Chavez Interviewed by Cindy Sheehan http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.venezuela/browse_thread/thread/5dc3e2f94b8b3c42?pli=1   Venezuela donates heating oil to poverty-stricken Americans http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/248826?tp=1  Chavez Fuels the South Bronx http://upsidedownworld.org/main/venezuela-archives-35/2441-chavez-fuels-the-south-bronx

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(lie#3)Brasil is not trying to contain any chavismo nor is lula pursuing such an agenda...Brazilian president defends Chavez and criticizes US http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brazilian_president_defends_Chavez_and_criticizes_US  Lula said: "We do not accept defamations against our   "companheiros" (comrades). We do not accept insinuations against comrades. Venezuela has the right to be a sovereign country, to take its own decisions".

Lula also added that he is not afraid of doing this affirmation in "any place of the world".Lula also said:"I believe that Venezuela has the right to be a sovereign country, of making its own decisions and, at the same time, Venezuela does not need to be accused of things that those who are with you know that this is not part of your thought nor of your behavior.""There is[sic] many people talking badly about us in the world", he added.   Lula: Venezuela "does not lack democracy" http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Lula:_Venezuela_%22does_not_lack_democracy%22  The Brazilian President stressed that "Venezuela is a democratic country"

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(lie#4)first of all the protests against ahmedinajad's visit were numbered in less then 1 thousand,around 800 people and were organized by jewish organizations see..Protesto em São Paulo contra visita de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ao Brasil http://www.amisrael.org.il/pt/?p=2031  O rabino Henry Isaac Sobel, ex-presidente da Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP), afirmou que “a vinda de Ahmadinejad é uma ofensa frontal à comunidade judaica”.O presidente da Confederação Israelita do Brasil (Conib)...

as far as the claim that Lula forgot so quick about the 60's dictatorship,there is no connection THERE AND ITS AN ABSURD STATEMENT...first of all the  overthrow of Joao Goulart was sponsored by US Government,and Lula is quite aware of this,see... Brazil: Dictatorship torture to be investigated http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2009/12/brazil-dictatorship-torture-to-be.html  DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SHED LIGHT ON U.S. ROLE President Johnson urged taking "every step that we can" to support overthrow of Joao Goulart..Audio: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/index.htm#audio  

U.S. Ambassador Requested Pre-positioned Armaments to aid Golpistas; Acknowledged covert operations backing street demonstrations, civic forces and resistance groups...(also the  us was already  supporting the dictator SHAH in IRAN...SO I FAIL TO SEE THE RELATION ...Marifeli Pérez-Stable is a professor at Florida International University(this man is a shill,he isnt even qualified to speak on latin american,or is and is being paid to spread lies and propaganda..)