Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to have talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani later this month in New York following the reinstatement of sanctions against the Middle Eastern country by the United States, a Japanese government source said Sunday.
Japan hopes to maintain ties with Iran, on which it depends for crude oil imports. The leaders are planning to meet on the sidelines of the U.N. Security Council General Assembly later this month for the sixth year straight, it said.
President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 international nuclear deal that Tehran signed with other major powers, before reinstating some of its sanctions against Iran.