Abe heads to Tehran to try and ease Iran-U.S. tensions

What an absolute twat......'Deflect,Deny,Distance and Deride.

His home country's economy is crumbling.

I went to see the Iris Festival at a place near my house this last week........60% of the participants were elderly,30% were either poor or appeared to be poor and the remaining 10% were either pretending to be neither or were up to their necks in debt driving their Lexus.....or it their Lexi?

Pls save Japan and all the people living in Japan first.

This is a joke. Abe and international affairs. Good one!

PM Abe’s meetings in Teheran may help lower the rhetoric.

Few of us are familiar with the intervention of the United Sates of America in Iranian affairs throughout the 20th Century.

The current occupant of the White House listens closely to the USA’s client state in the Middle East, a country which is itching to get the USA involved in another mindless war of choice, similar to the one conducted by the George W (Weapons of Mass Deception) Bush Administration.

Enough already, We the People of the United States of America deserve better.

Dear Amir Havasi,

HI

I think that you are Iranian and a good journalist in jepantoday, the report was informative but in the middle of the report something surprised me. you just mentioned Gulf and if I'm not mistaken you refer to the "Persian Gulf" and so as I said before if you are iranian like me it's so disappointing....

Useless, please confirm that the actual politics in Iran are not good, no freedom and democratics ideals..

Abe san can't settle Japan's diplomatic disputes with any of Japan's neighbors, so why does he think he could settle diplomatic disputes half away around the globe?

Abe san comes as being the worst PM in foreign diplomacy since 1945, so he should stay away from meddling in others' affairs before making them worse.

Iran is a multilateral issue, Japan, Europeans, Africans should all conduct talks with Iran, the world can't afford to leave Iran's jaded nuclear ambition to Trump and the Ayatolla alone.

At the end of the day, Iran has got to either tone down its rhetoric, and anti Israel (a proxy for the western world) stance, or no one but terrorists will trust it. I hope Abe et al can convey the positives that can come from a less jaded Iran.

In one year and seven months, just like the many trade wars that have been started, this problem will solve itself.

Tensions between the US and, indeed, the globe will only ease when the nations of the globe collectively stand up to the US. The problem is that a bully must continue bullying to intimidate and dominate and this is what is happening with the US. In order to continue global dictatorship it must continue to threaten, intimidate and flex its muscle and so expect more wars in the future until the globe tell the US "enough". The alternative is a global nuclear holocaust initiated by Washington. At the moment, the people of the world still have the opportunity to start making their elected leaders accountable, but time is running out.

A government official said Abe will not be in Tehran to "mediate between Iran and the U.S." and that "easing tensions" was the prime purpose.

While trump is in office there can be no mediation as he will not listen to anything but what he wants to hear.

While Trump is in office, the easing of tensions will be a useless purpose. He will not listen.