The United States is still in "middle of the game" regarding the situation in Iran, said U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Saturday.
In an interview with Fox News, Vance said talks with Iran had made some progress over the past few days.
He added that the United States expects oil and gas supplies from the Gulf region to remain at pre-conflict levels, noting that Iran had given the same assurance.
According to Vance, the U.S. is trying to see whether Iran is willing to make the long-term changes needed for a better bilateral relationship. If not, he said, the U.S. would continue to apply pressure and get as much oil and gas out of the Middle East.
Vance also said the U.S. is working on setting up a traffic scheme, including demining operations, to ensure the safe passage of ships through the region.
He stressed that the U.S. wants a commitment from Iran not to fire on commercial vessels.
US still in middle of game with Iran: Vance
A visitor to Japan's Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has warned that rephrasing historical atrocities makes it harder for future generations to grasp the truth, as the museum moves to replace "Nanjing Massacre" with "Nanjing Incident" in its first major exhibition renewal in roughly three decades.
August 9, 1945, marked the day the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Within days, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. Today, the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum serves as a window for peace education and anti-war advocacy. Yet its exhibitions devote far more space to Japanese civilian suffering than to the nation's own wartime aggression, with references to the invasion of China softly labeled as the "War with China" rather than "aggression."
The museum is now carrying out its first large-scale exhibition update in about 30 years.
Under plans released by Nagasaki City, the current reference to the "Nanjing Massacre" will be revised to read "Nanjing Incident - the killing of a large number of civilians and prisoners of war." While "massacre" explicitly denotes large-scale, organized killing, "incident" is a neutral term that can describe any historical or social occurrence. Replacing the former with the latter, critics argue, overturns the historical verdict recognized by the international community.
"What historical truth actually is can be greatly affected by the way it is phrased. If 'massacre' is expressed as 'incident,' young people who study this history in the future will find it difficult to correctly understand this period of history, and difficult to judge which expression better conforms to historical facts," said a Japanese visitor.
Nagasaki City has defended the change by citing the official phrasing used by Japan's Foreign Ministry and government-approved textbooks. Observers say this rationale reveals an official attempt to challenge the post-war international order, downplay the brutality of aggressive war, and inflict secondary psychological harm on victims.
The Nanjing Massacre remains an undeniable historical truth.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East explicitly used the term "Nanjing Massacre" in its judgment, establishing Japanese atrocities through international judicial process. In October 2015, UNESCO officially inscribed a collection of documents concerning the Nanjing Massacre into its Memory of the World Register.
The planned revision has drawn international attention. Britain's The Times has reported on the move and voiced concern over Japan's historical revisionist tendencies.
However, the wording is changed, history itself is unalterable.
Nagasaki Museum's plan to rename Nanjing Massacre sparks outcry
