Iran condemns US for bearing banner of nukes ban on Hiroshima anniv
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The United States is facing condemnations from Iran as the latter still underlines the peaceful nature of its nuclear program and the malicious nature of Washington's.
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A photograph released by the US government in 1960 that shows the Little Boy atom bomb, the type detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 (AP)
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has accused the United States of peddling a significant falsehood regarding Iran's nuclear program.
Nasser Kanaani expressed this sentiment on social media, highlighting the irony that the US, as the only nation to have used nuclear weapons, is now pointing fingers at Iran.
Kanaani emphasized that the US has a dark history of deploying nuclear weapons as instruments of mass destruction and supporting an illegitimate regime that possesses the largest nuclear arsenal in the region.
He went on to question whether such a country is qualified to champion a ban on nuclear weapons and dismissed the US claims about Iran's nuclear program as a deliberate repetition of an enormous lie.
"Is it fit to be the flag bearer of a nuclear weapons ban?" he asked. "Its claims about Iran’s nuclear program are a deliberate repetition of a big lie."
The devastating impact of the US' use of nuclear weapons was felt on August 6, 1945, when the world witnessed the atomic bomb's catastrophic effects on Hiroshima, resulting in the destruction of the entire city and the loss of 140,000 lives. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, claiming an additional 70,000 lives.
Despite Washington's persistent uproar over Iran's civilian nuclear program, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly certified its peaceful nature. This certification should serve as a testament to Iran's commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear technology.
The nuclear era began when President Harry Truman delivered a statement announcing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which he simply characterized as "an important Japanese Army base." It was an outright lie.
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According to journalist Greg Mitchell, a renowned scholar of Japan's atomic bombings, "Hiroshima was not an 'army base,' but a city of 350,000." It did house an important military headquarters, but the bomb was dropped in the heart of a city, far from its industrial region."
"Perhaps 10,000 military personnel died in the bomb," Mitchell remarked, "but the vast majority of the 125,000 dead in Hiroshima would be women and children." When an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, "it was officially described as a 'naval base,' yet less than 200 of the 90,000 dead were military personnel."
Since then, administrations have repeatedly used language to justify irresponsible nuclear policies that have resulted in global disasters, Anti War journal reported.
In modern times, the most insidious lies from Washington officials have come with silence - refusing to acknowledge the growing dangers of nuclear war with true diplomacy. These threats have pushed the hands of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock to an unprecedented 90 seconds before apocalyptic Midnight.
As of 2022, Britain, China, France, India, "Israel", North Korea, Pakistan, the United States, and Russia had 12,705 nuclear warheads.
