{"id":3032,"date":"2021-12-22T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2021-12-22T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:50:13","slug":"japan-ready-to-expand-cooperation-with-iran-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/japan-ready-to-expand-cooperation-with-iran-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan ready to expand cooperation with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MASHHAD, Dec. 22, (Asia Free Press): The Japanese Ambassador to Iran, Kazutoshi Aikawa, claimed that his country is ready to expand cooperation with Iran, highlighting the long-standing ties between the two countries, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The ambassador made the remarks in a meeting with the Vice-Chairman of Astan Qods Razavi Malek Rahmati in Mashhad, reported IRNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;The cooperation between Japan and Iran in fighting against the coronavirus spread taking advantage of modern medical equipment and standing against the bilateral US sanctions as well as Tokyo&#8217;s humanitarian aids to the Afghan refugees settled along Iran&#8217;s border with Afghanistan&#8221;, Aikawa asserted while explaining ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Rahmati stated that Iran and Japan were well aware of the dimensions of economic sanctions, which are one of the global arrogance&#8217;s domination tools, such as the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He claimed, &#8220;The US was the only country in history to actually use nuclear weapons, as no one in the world would forget the US&#8217; nuclear attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;The very country that restricts other countries under the pretext of the possibility that those states may make nuclear weapons,&#8221; Rahmati added while denouncing America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He also mentioned Astan Qods Razavi&#8217;s abilities in various fields, such as pharmacy, agriculture, and architecture, and stated that the entity was willing to collaborate on projects such as desalination and the digital economy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASHHAD, Dec. 22, (Asia Free Press): The Japanese Ambassador to Iran, Kazutoshi Aikawa, claimed that his country is ready to expand cooperation with Iran, highlighting the long-standing ties between the two countries, according to media reports. The ambassador made the remarks in a meeting with the Vice-Chairman of Astan Qods Razavi Malek Rahmati in Mashhad, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,2],"tags":[200,128,1498,1499],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-news","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-kazutoshi-aikawa","tag-qods-razavi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}