Brazil sees no Iranian threat, despite US warning

Source: Reuters

Brazil sees no Iranian threat, despite US warning
Fri May 9, 2008 3:55pm EDT

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (Reuters) - Brazil sees no threat from Iran, despite U.S. concerns that the Tehran government is courting allies in Latin America, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said on Friday.

Thomas Shannon, the senior U.S. official for Latin America, said on Wednesday that Iran was making allies in the region to counter Washington's traditional influence and could use them to threaten U.S. security.

"This is news to me," Jobim said. "I'm not working on that theory. The information that I have has nothing about this."

Shannon urged Latin American governments to respect U.N.-backed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and urged them "to be vigilant."

But Jobim told reporters that although Latin American governments were in close contact with each other over the setting up of a regional defense council, "there's been no dialogue of this nature."



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Nelson Jobim, Brazil's Defense Minister



Thomas Shannon, _Bush's senior Asst. Sec. of State!

in the path to "Energy Independence."

All I can think is that it's a TRAGEDY Jimmy Carter was not valued more as a President (we were not ready for a true visionary) who took the first steps by putting solar panels on the WH. Ya gotta know those puppies were smartly *ripped off* the moment Saint Ronnie entered the WH. :(

Amidst World Oil Crisis, Brazil Declares Energy Independence

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=be34441ce913bde3e39c8b7857b9d615

Energy Independence: Brazil´s Best Kept Secret

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/54829

Maybe there is nothing to worry about. But I'm worried that there is something to worry about.

when he went to visit in Caracas in 1958!

www.BoRev.net

What that means for this country, we're about to find out.

in private he probably laughed until he cried