CNBC: Japan’s Abe heads to Iran with oil and the US on the agenda
* Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Iran for a two-day mission with clear goals: to secure his country’s energy supply, and to bring adversaries Iran and the U.S. to the negotiating table.
* Economically cornered, Iranian authorities still largely oppose talks with the Trump administration.
* In addition to pursuing some sort of path to de-escalation, Abe seeks to showcase Japan’s diplomatic influence on the world stage.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Iran for a two-day mission with clear goals: to secure his country’s energy supply, and to bring adversaries Iran and the U.S. to the negotiating table.
Both are challenging feats, and they require Abe — an ally of President Donald Trump and the first Japanese prime minister to visit Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution — to walk a thin tightrope between Japan’s economic needs and its maintenance of geopolitical relationships.
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WNU Editor: Japanese Premier Abe will succeed in getting Iranian commitments on oil. He will fail in bringing Iran and the U.S. to the negotiating table.
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