Home
Discover Islam
Quran Recitations
Lectures
Fatwa
Articles
Fiqh
E-Books
Women
Boys & Girls 
Ramadan
Fatwa Audios
Month of Mercy
Women
Eed Al- Fitr
Food Recipes
Videos
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, is visiting Iran for a nuclear summit that may prove to be Tehran's last chance to avoid new UN sanctions.
Lula said in Moscow before departing for Tehran that he was "optimistic" and hoped to be able to persuade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to reach an agreement with the West over its nuclear program.
Lula is expected to hold talks with Ahmadinejad on Sunday morning and also meet Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader.
"I must now use everything I have learned over my long political career to convince my friend Ahmadinejad to come to an agreement with the international community," Lula said.
But the US and Russia have already said the chances of success are weak, while Turkey appears to have given up any hope of Iran - its ally and neighbor - avoiding sanctions over its nuclear drive.
Enrichment activity
Brazil and Turkey, who are non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, have so far resisted US-led efforts to push through a fourth set of sanctions against Iran over its failure to accept repeated ultimatums to stop enrichment activity.
Iran has rejected a UN proposal to enrich abroad the uranium it says it needs for a nuclear research reactor.
Manouchehr Mottaki, the foreign minister, indicated that Iran was still not ready to budge from its position.
"We hope that the parties [involved in the talks with Iran] will bend to the realities and choose the right path," he was quoted as saying in reports on Saturday.
Lula has in the past defended Iran's nuclear activities, saying Tehran has the right to atomic energy, and has repeatedly said sanctions would be counter-productive and ineffective.
PHOTO CAPTION
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) speaks to Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (R) after arriving at Mehrabad International Airport May 15, 2010.
Al-Jazeera
Prayer Times
Prayer times for Doha, Qatar 
