Mayors for Peace Newsflash for June 2018 was published and a section of that is dedicated to the news of total number of Iranian member cities exceeding 1000.

In this news flash it is stated that: " As of June 1, 2018, the number of Iranian member cities reached 1,003. This record was achieved by the continued efforts of the staff and volunteers at the Tehran Peace Museum who have been consistently communicating with non-member cities in Iran and asking them to join the organization. The City of Tehran has been a Lead City of Mayors for Peace since 2017 and the Iranian Secretariat of Mayors for Peace is housed within the Tehran Peace Museum. Iran is now home to the second largest number of Mayors for Peace member cities in the world after Japan.

The Iranian Secretariat of Mayors for Peace wishes to invite the remaining cities to join the organization and also further activate the current network of Iranian member cities."

Other titles of the News flash is as below:
• Attendance of Mayors for Peace President at the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
• U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts New Resolution Calling for Nuclear Disarmament
• Open Letter to the G7 Leaders Signed by Mayors for Peace
• Mayors for Peace Collaboration with "The Hibakusha Appeal" Signature Campaign
• 100 Day Countdown Message for the International Day of Peace
• Report of the 10th Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace
• Request for Payment of the 2018 Mayors for Peace Membership Fee
• Member City Activities
• “Peace News from Hiroshima” (Provided by the Hiroshima Peace Media Center of the CHUGOKU SHIMBUN)
• Request to Promote Various Measures Based on the New Action Plan (2017-2020)
• Last Month’s Visitors to the President of Mayors for Peace
• Mayors for Peace Member Cities - 7,595 Cities in 163 Countries/Regions

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