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Japan PM meets Iran leader on mission to ease tensions

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday.

AFP | Tehran | June 13, 2019 3:29 pm

Japan PM meets Iran leader on mission to ease tensions

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (File Photo: IANS)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday as he sought to ease US tensions on the first visit by a Japanese premier since the 1979 revolution.

“Meeting with Mr. @AbeShinzo, the Prime Minister of Japan,” said a tweet on the leader’s official English-language Twitter account accompanied by photographs of the two men.

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