From the Ashes of Hiroshima to the Rubble of Minab: A Mother Confronts the American War Machine
A mother from Minab travels to Hiroshima to connect the ashes of 1945 to the US murder of her 7-year-old son today.
The American empire has a singular, bloody speciality: the mass slaughter of children. Whether through the apocalyptic fire of atomic bombs in 1945 or the precision-guided Tomahawk missiles of today, Washington’s method of enforcing global hegemony relies on the pulverised bodies of the innocent. As the world pauses to remember the victims of US imperialism, the mothers of the Axis of Resistance are crossing continents to ensure the empire’s crimes are never swept under the rug of history.
The Minab Massacre
On February 28, during the opening salvo of the US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the empire showed its true face. In a display of utter depravity, American forces launched a “triple-tap strike” of Tomahawk missiles into the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in the southern Iranian city of Minab. They did not target military bases; they targeted a schoolyard.
Among the martyrs was 7-year-old Makan Nasiri. The strike was so devastating, the imperial violence so absolute, that Makan’s body has never been recovered from the rubble. He was erased from the earth by the exact same military apparatus that once erased Hiroshima.
A Mother’s Crusade in the Lion’s Den
As Japan marked the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the only use of nuclear weapons in human history—the ghosts of the past met the martyrs of the present. Makan’s parents, carrying the unbearable weight of a missing child, travelled to Hiroshima as part of an Iranian delegation coordinated by the Tehran Peace Museum. They left their two surviving children in Minab and crossed the world to stand on the very soil that the American empire once turned to radioactive glass.
Meeting with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, Makan’s mother delivered a message that shattered the sanitised, imperial narratives of “peace.”
“I am Makan Nasiri’s mother,” she told the mayor. “My husband and I left our other two children in Minab and travelled all this way to make the voice of our child and those of the children who are victims of war heard by the people of the world.”
She warned that if world public opinion does not demand accountability, the empire will simply repeat its tragedies. Drawing a direct line between the American crimes of the 20th and 21st centuries, she urged the people of Hiroshima to let their historical trauma serve as a deterrent against the new wars waged by the hands that bombed their ancestors.
The Weapon of Memory
In a profound act of cultural resistance, she presented the mayor with the documentary The Angels of Minab are Still Here, narrated by Iranian actor Parviz Parastoi and subtitled in Japanese.
This is the essence of the Axis of Resistance: we do not just fight the empire on the battlefield; we fight it in the realm of memory. We connect the blood of Minab to the ashes of Hiroshima. We force the world to look at the missing body of a 7-year-old Iranian boy and recognise the unbroken lineage of American war crimes.
The Unbroken Beat of Truth
The US and its regional vassals desperately want the world to forget who the real architects of global terror are. As we have recently seen with the Japanese leadership’s cowardly attempts to erase Washington’s role in the 1945 bombings, the imperial core demands historical amnesia from its proxies.
But mothers like Makan’s refuse to comply. The unbroken beat of the resistance ensures that the names of the martyrs—from the incinerated children of Nagasaki to the missing body of Makan Nasiri—will echo far louder than the empire’s bombs. The empire can drop its missiles, but it can never bury the truth.
Reference: PressTv