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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is facing domestic political embarrassment after enduring a series of damaging snubs on a visit to Brazil, Iran’s erstwhile close ally.
Having prided himself in fostering close ties with Latin American leaders, Mr Ahmadinejad found himself conspicuously frozen out at last week’s UN Rio + 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, with none of his fellow leaders deigning to meet him.
Mr Ahmadinejad’s humiliation was compounded when his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, declined his request for a face-to-face meeting.
Perhaps most galling of all has been the mocking response to a picture of the president, taken as he is about to depart from Rio, that seems to emphasize his diminutive physical stature as he poses in the presence of heavily-armed, burly Brazilian bodyguards.