Regarding the latest state of exchanges between Iran and Japan, Bahram Shakoori said, "The Japanese predict that the agreement to revive Borjam will happen soon and they can develop trade relations." In the past, much of the Iran-Japan trade consisted of oil exports, which were halted due to the sanctions.
The Japanese want to restore oil imports from Iran, which could constitute a significant part of our exports.
He continued, "Jetro, which is the Japan External Trade Organization, had expressed the wish to hold meetings with the Iran-Japan Joint Committee, which fortunately held its first meeting, and expressed interest in holding BTB meetings between Japanese and Iranian economic players. , Make way for the lifting of sanctions and the work of the executive to increase trade between the two countries.
He added: "There seems to be a bright future between Iran and Japan." Japan is one of the most developed countries in the world and its interest is closer to us. The two countries have 90 years of economic and trade relations with each other.
Japan is also interested in helping other countries.
For example, he has a group that helps developing countries and cooperates in the field of water and air pollution, in other words, they try to make their trade available to developing countries .
It seems that Japan, with its capacity in the area of ​​technology and innovation, could be a target country for us to be able to meet many of our technological needs through Japan.
Shakoori added: "The details of Japan's purchase of Iranian oil have not yet been announced, but in the past a number of countries such as Japan and South Korea used Iranian oil and everything their system was designed on the basis of Iranian oil."
Not buying oil would have cost them, and of course replacing other oil would have cost them, but the sanctions still stopped them, but now they are again interested in buying oil from Iran again.
The head of the Iran-Japan joint trade commission continued: "It bodes well for both parties, both for them to be able to reduce their costs and for Iran to be able to use the currency from the sale of oil to supply the country's infrastructure. Negotiations are ongoing in the form of ambassadors and the State Department.
The Japanese have always been interested in developing their relations with Iran, but due to the joint ventures they had with the Americans, it was not possible for them to continue their relations with Iran during the sanctions, but if these sanctions are lifted through negotiations, the Japanese are very interested in dealing with Iran on issues such as oil imports or exports of new equipment.
Shakoori expressed his hope for the development of economic and trade relations between Tehran and Tokyo: of course, in the past, trade with Japan was not very high and now it is almost zero, but there is talent in the two countries who can further develop their relations.
In the field of mining, we can supply many equipments and machines from Japan.
Japanese brands like January have been in Iran for a long time, we have a history of cooperation in various industries and this can grow.
Iran used to be the market for European and American countries, and if we want to replace them, Japan is a potential country that can play this role.
If we develop our relations, we can increase our trade and economic relations with Japan to at least 10 billion dollars.