Takaichi calls for ships' safe passage in Strait of Hormuz in talks with Iran president

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters after her call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi spoke with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian over the phone on Wednesday, hours after Tehran agreed to a ceasefire in the war with the U.S
and Israel, with reopening the Strait of Hormuz topping the agenda.Takaichi told reporters that she had held a 25-minute call with Pezeshkian, her first contact with the Iranian president since the war began on Feb
28, and that the two had discussed the ceasefire as well as her hopes for a deal to permanently end the fighting.The United States and Iran agreed on the two-week ceasefire late Tuesday, reaching the deal less than two hours before U.S
President Donald Trump's deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the wiping out of "a whole civilization."
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