Iran calls attack on Pasteur Institute ‘flagrant war crime’
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei cited a warning published in The Lancet saying damage to Iran’s Pasteur Institute from US and Israeli attacks threatens both national and regional health security.
The medical journal described the institute as a pillar of Iran’s public health infrastructure, warning that its loss would pose “a real, immediate, and dangerous threat to public health.”
“Attacking a century-old scientific and public health institution is not merely an attack on a building; it is an assault on people’s right to health, science, and life,” Baghaei wrote on X.
