US President Donald Trump last year urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to act as a mediator between the United States and Iran amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, even though he did not expect the Japanese leader to succeed in the mission, former US national security adviser John Bolton said in his memoir published on Tuesday.
It later emerged, Bolton said, that Trump was using his relationship with Abe to press for a boost in farm exports to Japan.
In the hope of brokering dialogue between the two foes, Abe made the trip to Iran in June 2019, becoming the first sitting Japanese prime minister to do so since 1978. But the mission ended in failure and he was embarrassed after two tankers, one operated by a Japanese company, were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz during his stay |||READ MORE
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