Turkey, Brazil urge UN Security Council to give Iranian nuke deal a chance

Turkey and Brazil urged the UN Security Council to avoid imposing more sanctions on Iran, saying that a compromise they brokered earlier this week is the best way out of the international dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program. In a joint letter, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, urged fellow UN Security Council members to heed the nuclear swap deal that they signed with their Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday to solve the Iranian nuclear issue. Davutoglu and Amorim expressed in the letter their wish that the joint declaration announced in Tehran would be evaluated by the veto-wielding members of the Council. "Brazil and Turkey are convinced that it is time to give a chance for negotiations and to avoid measures that are detrimental to a peaceful solution of this matter," the foreign ministers said in the letter. They asked the five permanent members of the Council to reconsider the agreement, which requires Iran to deposit 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium in Turkey in exchange for 120 kilograms of nuclear reactor fuel.