Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim launched a barrage of criticism against the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, asserting that the Council "no longer reflects the political reality" of today, but rather that of 64 years ago. Amorim also criticized the UNSC for neutralizing a Brazilian-Turkish nuclear fuel swap proposal with Iran with a fresh sanctions resolution, the details of which Amorim claims were not available to the non-permanent Council members in a reflection of how the UNSC has "zero transparency at the technical level." Amorim's critique of the UNSC came a day after he announced that Brazil would no longer play an active role in mediating the Iranian nuclear dispute since "we got our fingers burned by doing things that everybody said were helpful and in the end we found that some people could not take 'yes' for an answer.