Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pledged that Iran would never yield to Western pressure over its nuclear program, and it would outsmart “drunken and arrogant” Western opponents in the standoff.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Nicaragua’s visiting Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministerial meeting here in Tehran on Monday.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that the fourth round of talks between Iran and the US over his country would be held in the near future.