EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET INTO THE ACT – AT 11:49 A.M. ET:  It seems that the socialist president of Brazil, and no great friend of America, thinks he's an international statesman.  He wants to broker a deal with Iran.  We're so excited.  From AP:

Brazil's president met with Iranian leaders Sunday to try to broker a compromise in the international standoff over Teheran's nuclear program, even as the US said new sanctions are the only way to force Iran's cooperation.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is trying to use Brazil's friendly relations with Iran to show it can be a fair, neutral broker in the escalating dispute. Since evidence of a clandestine Iranian nuclear program first emerged in 2003, negotiations with world powers and visits by UN inspectors have failed to persuade the US and its allies that Iran is not pursuing a weapons capability.

"It's more difficult for someone who has nuclear weapons to ask someone not to develop nuclear weapons," Silva said in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV on Saturday. "It's easier for someone who does not carry nuclear weapons, like myself, to ask for that."

That is complete garbage.

Silva met in Moscow on Friday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said the Brazilian leader's efforts might be "the last chance before the adopting of known decisions in the Security Council."

COMMENT:  The Russians are being helpful again.

Silva has no chance at any agreement that would satisfy American conditions.  And the United States has no chance of getting serious sanctions through the Security Council.  So we're nowhere, which is where we were a year ago.  Meanwhile, the centrifuges in Iran are spinning, with the White House spinning even faster.

This will not end well.

May 16, 2010