Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers leader downplays Western pressure on the country over its nuclear program, calling on Iranians to stand united against sanctions. Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani said that the anti-Iran measures taken by the global arrogance would result in nothing but futility. Speaking to thousands of worshippers in the Iranian capital, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani further condemned [...]

Brazil and Turkey have urged world powers to support the Tehran declaration, instead of talking about new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Brasilia on Thursday and urged Western powers against neglecting the Tehran declaration that was signed [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Brazilian counterpart have vowed to boost relations in a bid to make reforms in the current “world structures.” President Ahmadinejad said strong relations between Tehran and Brasilia could set an example for all independent nations to change the current “unfair world order.” “The truth is some countries which dominate [...]

Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim has stated that Brasilia prefers diplomacy for solving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program rather than tough measures. Speaking on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Monday, Jobim said the previous sanctions never hindered Iran’s nuclear activities. The US and some of its allies want sanctions [...]

A senior British official claims that fresh sanctions on Iran are necessary to prevent more “dangerous” scenarios like an Israeli strike on Iran. Nicholas Hopton, deputy director of the Foreign Office’s International Security Directorate, said Britain viewed sanctions as the only leverage that could force Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program. Hopton urged Brazil [...]

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a meeting with the American Secretary of State said his country would continue its relations with Tehran. The President also stressed that he was seeking a peaceful solution for Iran’s nuclear issue. And Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim after a meeting with Clinton in a news conference [...]

The Iranian president says the country’s judicial system is responsible for issuing a ruling in the case of the three American hikers who were arrested near Iran’s border with Iraq on July 31. Iran charged Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal, and Sarah Emily Shourd with espionage on November 9. The three entered the country [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has resisted Israeli pressure over an upcoming visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his country. “You do not build peace if you do not talk to all political and religious forces, those that want peace and those that oppose peace,” DPA quoted Lula as saying at a [...]

With the Iranian president scheduled to set out on a state visit to Brazil next month, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Tehran and Brasilia share the same stance on peaceful nuclear activities. “The two countries have a common position in relation to peaceful nuclear activities and insist on [defending their] rights,” Mottaki was quoted as [...]