By gwajnberg on Skatehive
Banner created in MS designer   The world in war... West against Iran. The markets were waiting for that conflict. But as always, my country, Brazil, has so many interesting stories about foreign relationships. And it is an interesting relationship that Brazil has with Iran. Mostly, our current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula), started to make agreements with the country around 2009. The Iran president at the time was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and many in our country were against this visit, since Ahmadinejad was a known denier of the Holocaust. Also, since that time, Iran has been criticized for abusing human rights in the country. The meeting between Lula and Ahmadinejad [Credits by Agencia Brasil, available at wikimedia]   Brazil has always been known as a neutral country, and Lula, since his first mandate, looks like he wanted a peace Nobel Prize or something similar. He always tries to make contact with controversial international countries and figures, like Nichol