Japanese Prime Minister Visits Iran

Japanese prime minister shinzo abe 39 s trip to tehran represents the highest level effort yet to de escalate tensions between the u s.

Japanese prime minister visits iran. Iran is threatening to resume enriching. Mr abe is in tehran hoping to ease tensions between iran and the us. Japanese prime minister shinzo abe on thursday visited iran hoping to act as negotiator between the united states and iran. As japan has traditionally maintained amicable ties with iran abe hopes to encourage tehran to keep its commitments under a 2015 international nuclear deal according to.

Japanese prime minister shinzo abe arrived in tehran on wednesday june 12 in an apparent m. This comes on the same day the t. If realized abe will be the first sitting japanese prime minister in about four decades to visit iran. Tehran during his landmark visit to iran japanese prime minister shinzo abe toured the national museum of iran on thursday.

He visited various sections of the museum including the ones dedicated to prehistoric ancient and islamic era iran as well as countless archaeological objects that chronicle the country s juicy history. And iran as the country appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers that america earlier abandoned. Tokyo reuters japanese prime minister shinzo abe is due to visit iran next week in an apparent mediation mission to ease tension between iran and the united states. Sign up for the today s worldview newsletter.

Iran s state news agency irib video provided by reuters shows. Japanese prime minister shinzo abe arrived in iran on wednesday for a two day trip that was aimed at cooling tensions in the region. Prime minister takeo fukuda visited the middle eastern country in 1978. Japanese prime minister shinzo abe sought to play a part in easing tensions between iran and the united states when he traveled to tehran for meetings with the country s leaders this week.