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Iran dilemma
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El dilema iraní
Argentina está muy lejos tanto de los centros de poder como de los ejes de conflicto del mundo, por lo que la asamblea general anual de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York en el mes de septiembre es normalmente el momento para repetir cómodos tópicos y a lo sumo manidas reclamaciones por la soberanía del Atlántico Sur en lo que a este país concierne. Pero esto bien podría cambiar esta semana, porque el Presidente Néstor Kirchner marcha directamente hacia una encrucijada: el reciente resurgimiento de la presión internacional contra Irán versus la costumbre (especialmente encarnada por su esposa, la Senadora Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) por hacer méritos en cada visita a Nueva York reiterando las acusaciones contra Irán por supuestamente planear el sangriento atentado contra la AMIA en 1994.
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Argentina is so far removed from the world’s centres of power and hotspots alike that the annual General Assembly of the United Nations in New York every September is normally the occasion for safe platitudes and at most shopworn South Atlantic sovereignty claims as far as this country is concerned. Yet this might well change this week because President Néstor Kirchner is walking straight into a potential collision course — the recent resurgence of international pressure against Iran versus the Kirchner administration’s penchant (especially espoused by his spouse, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) for picking up brownie points on every visit to New York by reiterating charges against Iran for allegedly masterminding the 1994 AMIA Jewish community centre bomb massacre. The Iranian chargé d’affaires here Mohsen Baharvand has grasped this potential dilemma to warn Argentina that any foray along the latter lines would be seen as joining the warpath against Iran in comments prominently displayed by Friday’s edition of Argentina’s top-selling newspaper (a strange choice of lead story for Yom Kippur day perhaps). The world has already witnessed extraordinary role reversal on the part of France, previously at the helm against all United Nations-led action against Iraq after diluting the alternative of UN ultimata into absurdity but now suddenly in the forefront against Iran’s nuclear programme — are we to see Kirchner wander into similar role reversal with a Middle East involvement akin to that of the reviled Carlos Menem?
However lowly a place the AMIA issue might have occupied in Kirchner’s original New York agenda, he can hardly ignore it now. He must toe a fine line between pursuing an investigation to which he has repeatedly committed himself and even more so his wife while at the same time maintaining Argentina’s historic allergy to overseas engagements. A problem for any speech-writer.
Certainly it was interesting body language that on the eve of yesterday’s departure to New York at the end of last week frontrunning presidential candidate Cristina Kirchner was far more interested in being photographed alongside US Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne than with Ecuador President Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, during his visit here (not to mention any contact with Baharvand). The tone of President Kirchner’s farewell to the international community in New York this week is awaited with interest.
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