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06TOKYO1253
2006-03-09 04:18:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Tokyo
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MEDIA REACTION IRAN - TOKYO

Tags:  OIIP KMDR KPAO JA 
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UNCLAS TOKYO 001253 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE FOR I/RF, PA/PR/FPC/W, IIP/G/EA, EAP/PD, R/MR,
EAP/J, EAP/P, PM;
USTR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE;
TREASURY FOR OASIA/IMI;
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA;
CP BUTLER OKINAWA FOR AREA FIELD OFFICE;
PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION IRAN - TOKYO


LEAD STORIES: Thursday morning's conservative Sankei
front-paged the DRPI talks that started Tuesday in
Hawaii, speculating that USG and GOJ negotiators would
discuss both a new strategy to strengthen the US-Japan
alliance and the details of US force transformation and
base realignment.

UNCLAS TOKYO 001253

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE FOR I/RF, PA/PR/FPC/W, IIP/G/EA, EAP/PD, R/MR,
EAP/J, EAP/P, PM;
USTR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE;
TREASURY FOR OASIA/IMI;
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA;
CP BUTLER OKINAWA FOR AREA FIELD OFFICE;
PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION IRAN - TOKYO


LEAD STORIES: Thursday morning's conservative Sankei
front-paged the DRPI talks that started Tuesday in
Hawaii, speculating that USG and GOJ negotiators would
discuss both a new strategy to strengthen the US-Japan
alliance and the details of US force transformation and
base realignment.


1. "Deepening Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Tehran Using Oil
and Natural Gas as Diplomatic Card" The business daily
Nihon Keizai's Dubai correspondent Kagaya wrote (3/9):
"Although the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will
likely take up Iran's nuclear program as early as next
week, Tehran continues to take a hard-line stance in the
belief that it will be able to use its abundant oil and
natural gas resources as a diplomatic card and expand its
international support. Meanwhile, there are growing fears
that a failure of the US and other major nations to bring
Iran into a new nuclear framework could spur the further
proliferation of nuclear weapons....


2. "To counter pressure from the US, Tehran is stepping
up its efforts to use oil and gas rights as a carrot with
which to win over China and Russia, both of which hold a
veto on the UNSC, as well as regional powers. Tehran has
concluded that winning over the support of these
countries will allow it to avoid a resolution on
sanctions.... There is growing speculation that the US
will form a bloc resembling the 'coalition of the
willing' in Iraq if the UN does not impose sanctions. A
diplomatic source stated: 'Without the participation of
China, Russia, and the majority of developing countries,
sanctions would not be much more effective than the steps
that the United States has taken on its own in the past."

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