Iran Press/ Iran news: Kenjo Murakami, Chargé d'Affaires of the Japanese Embassy to Iran, attended the conference on Sardasht victims of the chemical bombing on Wednesday.
On 28 June 1987, the
Iraqi army of the Baath regime dropped mustard gas bombs on Sardasht, West Azerbaijan, Iran. In two separate bombing runs on four residential neighborhoods, the attack killed 130 people and injured 8,000. The gas attacks occurred during the Iran–Iraq War when Iraq frequently used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians and soldiers.
Murakami added that using chemical weapons, such as nuclear weapons, is against international law.
According to Murakami, Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) should not be used, and the Japanese government is trying to spread lasting peace in the world.
Japanese people, attacked by nuclear weapons, are familiar with the sufferings of weapons of mass destruction.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and the invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. The Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender on 2 September, effectively ending the war.
The conference awarded the Sardasht honorary citizen badge to the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires to Iran.
Saddam's army used chemical weapons On June 28, 1987, and bombed four densely populated areas of Sardasht city in West Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran.
People in these areas (Sardasht) were exposed to toxic gases and suffered chemical injuries.
The chemical bombing of Sardasht was the most heinous chemical attack that caused many adverse effects, and the city has been called the first victim of chemical weapons in the world after the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Sardasht City, with a population of 120,000, is located in the south of West Azarbaijan, northwest of Iran, on the adjacent borders with Iraq.
The city with 856 martyrs and more than 4,000 disabled veterans has been called one of the cities, being the victim of using weapons of mass destruction.
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