Former
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, a key advisor on the current
government’s foreign policy, is in Tehran this week, and is holding
talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it’s not a popular
trip with some of his colleagues.
Hatoyama was prime minister for less than a year before being forced out
of office in June 2010, and ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
colleagues including Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba have urged the
mercurial former premier to “act prudently so as not to result in dual
diplomacy that would be different from the government’s policy.”
Hatoyama plans to be in Iran for four days, and is accompanied by two
advisors. The trip is intended to look at possible ways of resolving the
standoff between the West and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear activities,
which are suspected as being aimed at giving the country a nuclear
weapons capability. The trip, which began Saturday ...
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