Monday, February 27, 2023

Despite US Pressure Brazil Allows Two Iranian Warships To Dock In Rio de Janeiro

Iranian military ship Iris Makran navigates on the coast of Rio de Janeiro as a Brazilian flag flutters in Copacabana Beach, Brazil, February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes  

Reuters: Brazil allows two Iranian warships to dock in Rio despite US pressure 

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Two Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government granted permission despite pressure from the United States to bar them. 

The IRIS Makran and IRIS Dena warships both arrived on Sunday morning, Rio's port authority said in a statement. 

Reuters earlier this month reported that Brazil had bowed to U.S. pressure and declined Iran's request for the vessels to dock in Rio in late January, in a gesture from Lula as he flew to Washington to meet U.S. President Joe Biden. 

However, with Lula's trip over, the ships have been allowed to dock. Vice Admiral Carlos Eduardo Horta Arentz, the deputy chief of Brazil's Naval Staff, gave his approval for the ships to dock in Rio between Feb. 26 and March 4, according to a Feb. 23 notice in the official gazette.  

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13 comments:

  1. All of Iran's "blue water navy" are converted oil tankers.

    /a whole lotta contraband floating off South America.

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  2. National Security council advisor Jake Sullied Man is surprised?

    Unless the US showed the Brazilian leftists some new way to scam the electoral system how would those communists be beholden to the US leftists?

    if they did show them a new way ... no honor among thieves.

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  3. perhaps because to blockade a nation is a declaration of war

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  4. Another smack in the face of the biden and advisors. It's a new America since 2008.

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    1. Yep project weakness and the jackles start to circle the death of an empire and no better dipshit to lead us there. I say when the US starts there draft they have to take the Biden voters first

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  5. Just keep loving it u hippy

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  6. 2 late to protest war u fools

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