March 7th, 2016 - 01:30 GMT Japan PM to visit Iran for the first time in 38 years Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to visit Iran in August. It has been 38 years since the last diplomatic trip to the Islamic Republic, when Takeo Fukuda visited in 1978. Read more
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