Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that before making a decision on joining the United States, Japan wants to fulfill what it sees as a unique role it has to play in reducing tension, adding that he had not yet decided on how to respond to an expected US request to send its navy to join a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen.

The post Japan not considering sending SDF for US-proposed maritime coalition: Japanese official appeared first on Iran News Daily.

Following the attack, the US and its allies hastily accused Iran of carrying out the attacks without providing any evidence and investigation. Meanwhile, many experts believe that the US is the most beneficiary of recent attacks to destabilize Persian.

According to experts, the US is pursuing multiple goals by creating tension in the Persian Gulf. In addition to pressurizing Iran the US intends to pressurize its rivals  and limit rival countries access to the energy source of the Persian Gulf states.

In light of this development, Mehr News Agency reached to a senior member of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), Osman Faruk logoglu, who said that the American sanctions are unlawful and will only serve to exacerbate tensions in the Persian Gulf.  The risk of an accidental flare-up escalating into an armed conflict is real and ever-present.

With its provocative actions and sanctions, Washington not only aims to buttress its support for Israel and its Arab allies by punishing Iran but at the same time also intends to deny Chinese access to Iranian oil, he added referring to US provocative acts in Persian Gulf.

Turkish diplomat stressed that the fear of and rivalry with China is today one of the primary drivers of American foreign policy, adding that interruption of the oil flow in the Persian Gulf is one way to directly hurt Chinese interests and Trump administration is, therefore, playing with fire in Iran and a potential conflagration with China.

The post Turkish politician talks of US multiple goals of creating tensions in PG appeared first on Iran News Daily.

All US pressures against the country are aimed at changing Tehran’s regional policies and undermining the country’s missile power, he said, noting that some measures of the Trump administration have been adopted due to pressures from the Zionists.

Russia, China and India have continued their cooperation with Iran despite US pressures and the Israeli regime is afraid that Japan would join them, said the member of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.

“And more than that, Zionists are afraid that these tensions would ultimately lead to the normalization of ties between Iran and US; but of course this is not possible because we will not talk and interact with them [Americans] due to their violation of international rules.”

The Japanese PM is slated to make a three-day official visit to Iran on Wednesday.

The post Zionists afraid of Japan’s coop. with Iran: senior MP appeared first on Iran News Daily.

When asked about his earlier dismissal of the reports about this visit, Mousavi said he had dismissed the media speculations around this visit, not the general topic of it. Some media have speculated that Abe is making this visit to mediate between Tehran and Washington amid growing tensions.

“Both sides are negotiating to fix a date for the visit,” said Mousavi, hoping that the date would be fixed during the coming weeks.

“Surely this important visit will be a turning point in the history of bilateral relations between Iran and Japan,” he highlighted.

According to NHK, Japanese officials have begun final adjustments for the mid-June meetings of PM Abe with Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.

Abe will be the first Japanese prime minister to visit Iran since former prime minister Takeo Fukuda visited in 1978, shortly before the Islamic Revolution.

The post Date of Japanese PM Iran visit to be set in coming weeks: spox appeared first on Iran News Daily.