The Iranian View of Hiroshima: Beyond Anti-US Ideology?

Seventy-five years after 1945, the Islamic Republic of Iran is instrumentalizing the memory of the United States dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tehran is drawing a tragic parallel between then-Japanese victims and Iranian victims of Iraqi chemical weapons. While Japan is not supporting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the relationship between the two countries seems to exceed the limits imposed by Washington's foreign policy. Iran and Japan have long shared a common fascination.?(...) - Magazine / Iran, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear energy, Diplomacy, History, United States, Japan