IPPNW's
Dr. Ime John visits Tehran
Posted July
13, 2007
IPPNW Co-President Ime John visited Iran from June 11-16, 2007,
and met with members of the Society of Chemical Weapons Victims Support (SCWVS),
including the Society’s Head of International Relations, Dr. Shahriar Khateri.
In addition to discussing IPPNW’s programs and campaigns with Iranian physicians
and medical students, Dr. John delivered a letter from Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of
Hiroshima, inviting Iranian participation in Mayors For Peace (photo on right).
Recalling
the devastation of nuclear war as experienced by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Dr. John told an audience at the Tehran Municipality Office that “the effects
of the atomic bombs on those cities, like the horror of chemical weapons used
against the people of Iran during the Iran-Iraqi war in the 1980s should never
be allowed to recur. The immense human suffering and the environmental degradation
as a consequence of these weapons of mass destruction should be a sad reminder
that…[all of us must] resist war and embrace peace.”