Brazil's Lula calls UN Iran sanctions a mistake
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that UN Security Council powers had lost a "historic opportunity" to negotiate a solution by imposing new sanctions on Iran. "Sadly, this time it was Iran who wanted to negotiate and those who didn't want to negotiate were those who think that force resolves everything," Lula said in televised comments during a visit to northeastern Brazil.
"I think that taking this decision was a mistake." Brazil and Turkey, angry at the West's dismissal of an atomic fuel deal with Iran that they say made new sanctions unnecessary, voted on Wednesday against the fourth round of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against Iran. (Reuters)
