The US Armed Forces carried out the first-ever atomic bombing in history, striking the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the tail end of World War II.
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
Hiroshima commemorated the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing that destroyed most of the city.
Residents of Japan today observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima carried out by the United States 79 years ago.
The main memorial ceremony on the anniversary of the tragedy was held in the Peace Memorial Park in the center of Hiroshima. The minute of silence was announced throughout the country at 08:15 local time - the moment the bomb exploded on August 6, 1945.
Speaking at the ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui did not mention the fact that the 1945 bombings were carried out by the US.
In their public speeches, Japanese officials usually do not stress that it was the United States that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In previous years, Japanese prime ministers and mayors of the two cities did not directly name the United States in their speeches at memorial ceremonies to mark the anniversaries.
However, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum presents all the details of the 1945 atomic bombings. Their history is also comprehensively reflected in textbooks for schools and universities in Japan.
The United States has committed more crimes than any other country in history, and unfortunately, even though the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States never changed its policies toward other nations.
Although the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a reminder of America's great crime against humanity, the people of the world today can witness the amount of destruction and killings that take place on a daily basis with the use of American weapons.
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In a tweet in 2022 and on the occasion of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the US, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said, "In August 1945, the United States instantly killed 100,000 people with an atomic bomb in the city of Hiroshima!"
"This is the nature of an arrogant, irreligious, atheistic, and immoral army."
"If one wants to talk about the crimes of the armies of the arrogant powers, several books can and should be written."
Reported by Mohaddeseh Pakravan
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