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Vali Reza Nasr, a senior Obama administration advisor on Iran, has come to Iran. Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani and former parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel may be behind the visit. "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was informed well after Nasr entered the country," Tabnak reported on Wednesday. Nasr was appointed senior advisor to Richard Holbrooke -- the special US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tabnak and Fararu claim the unannounced trip by the US official to be linked to the recent release of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi.

Brazil is poised in the next several weeks to produce large quantities of enriched uranium... ...Contrasting Iran’s nuclear programs with Brazil, White House spokesman Scott McCllellan stated “I think a difference here… that I would point out—if you’re talking about Brazil versus Iran—is one of trust. Iran has shown that they can’t be trusted with nuclear technology because they have hidden their activities for some two decades; they failed to comply with their international obligations.” Trust is a strange choice of words in a world of increasing nuclear proliferation while Brazil’s cooperation with IAEA still remains ‘non-intrusive.’ Brazil has not...