{"id":300493,"date":"2025-08-04T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=300493"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:48:31","slug":"iran-foreign-minister-calls-for-japan-iran-cooperation-to-abolish-wmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/iran-foreign-minister-calls-for-japan-iran-cooperation-to-abolish-wmd\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Foreign Minister Calls for Japan-Iran Cooperation to Abolish WMD"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Aug 2025 –\u00a0Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has called for cooperation between Japan and Iran to eliminate weapons of mass destruction (W.M.D.s), and criticized U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s comparison of recent U.S. aggression\u00a0against Iran to Japan\u2019s nuclear bombings in 1945.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an opinion piece submitted to The Asahi Shimbun and other Japanese media on Saturday, Araqchi said,\u00a0\u201cJapan and Iran must lead a global movement for the total abolition of all WMDs: nuclear, chemical, and biological.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full text of Araqchi\u2019s article, which comes ahead of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cJapan and Iran must lead a global movement for the total abolition of all WMDs: nuclear, chemical, and biological,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that Iran shared the pain and suffering of WMDs with Japan, as it was targeted with chemical weapons in its war against Iraq in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

He called the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, \u201ca testament to the devastating power of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMany survivors carry physical and psychological wounds that time has not healed,\u201d the top Iranian diplomat wrote. \u201cThey have lived their lives in the shadow of those nuclear flashes, turning their trauma into tireless advocacy for peace and disarmament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In June, during a NATO summit meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump equated the U.S. attack against three nuclear facilities in Iran that month with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

He told reporters, \u201cThat hit ended the war. I don\u2019t want to use an example of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minister took issue with Trump\u2019s comment, saying: \u201cThe remark was more than a historical misstep; it was a deep insult to the memories of the dead and the dignity of those still living with the consequences of those bombings.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that in Iran, \u201cthe comparison was received with particular pain and fury.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1987, during the Iran-Iraq war, the city of Sardasht in northwestern Iran came under a mustard gas attack from Iraq that killed about 130 Iranians and left several thousand with permanent disabilities.<\/p>\n

Based on that experience, the minister wrote that Iran \u201chas suffered from the effects of W.M.D.s in its own modern history.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cFew nations understand, as deeply as ours, the irreversible impact of W.M.D.s. We must raise our collective voice to say: never again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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2 Aug 2025 –\u00a0Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has called for cooperation between Japan and Iran to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and criticized Donald Trump\u2019s comparison of recent U.S. aggression\u00a0against Iran to Japan\u2019s nuclear bombings in 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":287212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[742,179,1476,875],"class_list":["post-300493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weapons-of-mass-destruction","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-abolition","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300495,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300493\/revisions\/300495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}