Brazil Renews Opposition to West’s Anti-Iran Sanctions

“Brazil has always been against the West’s anti-Iran embargos and has declared (this view) in different international venues,” Manoel said in a meeting with Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Welfare Ali Rabeiei on the sidelines of the 103rd Session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

In recent years, the US and its Western allies have slapped cruel sanctions on Iran under the pretext that the country's peaceful nuclear program might have a covert drive towards acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.

Iranian officials assert that the US and some other Western states use the nuclear issue as an excuse to pile up pressure on the Islamic Republic which has faced the US-led sanctions for the past several decades following the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the country.

The Brazilian minister further expressed his country’s keenness to develop cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.  

Dias also accepted Rabeiei’s invitation to visit Tehran and hoped his trip to Iran will lead to the expansion of economic ties between the two countries.

Rabeiei, for his part, referred to Iran and Brazil’s precious experiences in creation of jobs, development of social welfare and fighting poverty and said Tehran and Brasilia can share these experiences. 

He also said that the volume of trade exchanges between the two countries’ is not acceptable given the existing potentials and hoped that the level of bilateral economic ties will increase.