Iran and Japan have held rare top-level talks for the second time this year amid flaring tensions in the Middle East but also budding signs of what may be a willingness for both the United States and the Islamic Republic to come to the table.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to Tokyo on Friday to meet Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, becoming the first Iranian president to do so in 19 years. The visit followed Abe’s historic trip to Tehran in June and, while then too the Japanese leader sought to ease worsening frictions between the U.S. and Iran, the security situation in the Persian Gulf—an oil lifeline for much of the world, including East Asia—has only deteriorated in the months since.”The context of President Rouhani’s trip to Tokyo is efforts by Japanese PM Abe to mediate between the U.S. and Iran and decrease dangerous tensions in the Persian Gulf,” Sina Toossi, a senior research analyst at the National Iranian American Council, told Newsweek. “Japan was one of the major importers of Iranian oil and its energy security depends on stability in the region.”Noting the “U.S.-Iran diplomatic deadlock” that followed Abe’s visit and missed opportunities at the United Nations General Assembly… Read full this story
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