Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Brazil will back Iran sanctions


Al-Jazeera

"Brazil's president has signed a decree stating his country will abide by United Nations sanctions against Iran even though it had worked to avoid them.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president, signed the decree "because there is a tradition of carrying out [UN] Security Council resolutions, including those we don't agree with," Celso Amorim, the foreign minister, told reporters.

The decision to take the formal step of signing a decree also comes after Iran last week dismissed a Brazilian offerto give asylum to an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.

"There seems to be a change of mood between Brazil and Iran in recent weeks," Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reported from Tehran....."

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