In a rare display of irritation of the Brazilian government with Iran, the Minister of Human Rights, Paulo Vannuchi, has heavily criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, showing that the recent "harmony" between Brazil and Iran is no unanimity in Brasilia. Vannuchi elevated the tone and called Ahmadinejad a "dictator," but defended the Brazilian foreign policy, saying it is not contradictory to open dialogue with governments that flagrantly violate human rights.
Vannuchi made the remarks on Monday (16), at the opening of the 1st International Seminar on Human Rights Education, organized by the Methodist University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. The minister said that the Brazilian government continues to negotiate with Iran for the Iranian Sakineh Ashtiani, arrested and sentenced to death by stoning in your country, be sent to Brazil as political asylees or refugees.
Sakineh Ashtiani, 43, was convicted on charges of having sex with two men after he had become a widow. The punishment was death by stoning. According to the Iranian authorities Sakineh also was convicted of murdering her husband, a fact denied by his lawyer.
The case has drawn international attention and the Brazilian government officially proposed that the woman was sent to Brazil. On Sunday (15), Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said there was no need for such action and that legal authorities of the country also are contrary to heed the request of Brazil.
"The Lula government is pressing Tehran diplomatically to allow it to come to Brazil. And if that dictator [Ahmadinejad] has a minimum of common sense, should allow her to come live in Brazil and be saved," said minister, for whom Brazil is the only country that can negotiate with Iran after President Lula and the Turkish government had brokered the talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran's nuclear program.
For Vannuchi, respect international human rights should override even the respect for differences and cultural precepts. "The relationship between human rights and cultural precepts is a delicate relationship that needs to be talked very calmly," he said. "The idea that the cultural precept has to be maintained would lead to tolerating infanticide, for example, and we can not accept this, as we can not accept the amputation of clitoris promoted by Islamic countries. You have to question and discuss it, but not with tanks but with the dialogue by pressing [so do see] that you can not convict someone of stoning, "the minister said.
Vannuchi also defended the Brazilian government's foreign policy, arguing that the greater proximity with the governments of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba - accused of violating human rights - do not represent any contradiction in the field of human rights.
"We condemn the violations of human rights, whether in Iran, either in Gaza or [at the U.S. naval base of] Guantánamo, but we think the violation of human rights in some countries must lead the United States or the UN [ United Nations] to invade them militarily, because no single event that has proven that military intervention will help, "said Vannuchi.
Cuba is a theme of "controversial"
Specifically on Cuba Vannuchi said the situation is "controversial" because although the country has a political system that "moves away much of the values of the Lula government," also has "social advances than any other American country has." "Moreover, since 1960 Cuba has not had a moment's respite. Therefore, the Cuban situation has to be discussed here. What can not be, for us, are prisoners of conscience. And the Brazilian government is discrete pressures in this direction . There are problems but the Cuban regime and those we disagree, "he said.
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