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<h1 class="reader-title">US legacy of targeting civilians alive
since Hiroshima<br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">August 6, 2019<br>
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<p><strong>Marking the anniversary of the nuclear bombing
of Japan’s Hiroshima, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif says the United States’ legacy of targeting
civilians lives on 74 years after it became the only
country to ever drop a nuclear bomb.</strong></p>
<p>“74 yrs after US became first & ONLY regime to
deploy a nuclear weapon—on a city, designed to maximize
casualties—it is STILL targeting civilians,” Zarif
tweeted on Tuesday.</p>
<p>On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped its
atomic payload over the Japanese port city of Hiroshima,
ultimately killing 140,000 people.</p>
<p>Three days later, a second US nuclear attack on
Nagasaki killed another 70,000 people.</p>
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<p>“This time, [the US is targeting civilians] with
Economic Terrorism, violating a historic nuclear deal
& punishing those who seek to adhere to it,” Zarif
added.</p>
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<p>The US left the nuclear agreement, officially known as
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), last
May. The deal had been inked between Tehran and six
world states — the US, the UK, France, Russia, China,
and Germany — in 2015 and was later endorsed by a UN
Security Council resolution.</p>
<p>Washington then returned the sanctions that had been
lifted by the accord and has been trying to persuade the
remaining signatories into leaving the JCPOA in
violation of Security Council Resolution 2231.</p>
<p>It has also threatened sanctions against the countries
and entities that continue trading with Iran,
particularly in energy sector, in defiance of unilateral
American bans.</p>
<p>Tehran calls the American bans instruments of “economic
terrorism,” saying such restrictive measures amount to
“crime against humanity.”</p>
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