{"id":6445,"date":"2026-04-03T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/iran-urges-global-health-response-to-strikes-on-medical-facilities-free-malaysia-today\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:28:31","slug":"iran-urges-global-health-response-to-strikes-on-medical-facilities-free-malaysia-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/iran-urges-global-health-response-to-strikes-on-medical-facilities-free-malaysia-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran urges global health response to strikes on medical facilities &#8211; Free Malaysia Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat message does attacking hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and the Pasteur Institute (of Iran) as a medical research centre in Iran convey?\u201d Pezeshkian said on the social media platform X, referring to strikes that reportedly hit the Pasteur Institute of Iran in Tehran.<br \/>\u201cAs a specialist physician, I urge the World Health Oragnisation (WHO), the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and physicians worldwide to respond to this crime against humanity,\u201d he added.<br \/>Iranian authorities said earlier that airstrikes had damaged the Pasteur Institute, a key medical research centre, warning that the attack poses risks to public health and international medical cooperation.<br \/>In a separate statement, foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei condemned the strike as \u201cheartbreaking, cruel, despicable, and utterly outrageous.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThe American-Israeli aggressors have attacked the Pasteur Institute of Iran \u2013 the oldest and most prestigious research and public health centre in Iran and the entire Middle East, founded in 1920 through an agreement between the Pasteur Institute of Paris and the Iranian government,\u201d Baghaei said on X.<br \/>Regional tensions have escalated since the US and Israel launched a joint offensive on Iran on Feb 28, killing more than 1,340 people to date, including then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<br \/>Iran has retaliated with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as Jordan, Iraq and Gulf countries hosting US military assets.<br \/>Stay current &#8211; Follow FMT on WhatsApp, Google news and Telegram<br \/>Subscribe to our newsletter and get news delivered to your mailbox.<br \/>Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.<br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2009 &#8211; <!-- -->2026<!-- --> FMT Media Sdn Bhd (1235453-U) All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixAFBVV95cUxPZDFIRGd6ekZvbGxReGdaNkFrVjdCN25CUDNOYkgtMDdjZFpjc0M0T05Md0RyQU5jeTR5RG00X25tRFM2N1R3R3hJeXFzU2NZdnJnZllEalhvTHJ2ZHhUWkVrWVlDc01tMThpb3k2aWxYeU9BUWxhTGxjdUtsLVFaQ2NwYXVnQnN5N3p5ZlNKckFaT3JhdlJEREE0cnNMX2NyanNXLWMtSms5UGp6LVptamZ1djc2WTh1cFFrcGtOeVc1elRw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat message does attacking hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and the Pasteur Institute (of Iran) as a medical research centre in Iran convey?\u201d Pezeshkian said on the social media platform X, referring to strikes that reportedly hit the Pasteur Institute of Iran in Tehran.\u201cAs a specialist physician, I urge the World Health Oragnisation (WHO), the Red Cross, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}