Smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran. AFP
"The aggression against Pasteur Institute of Iran -- a century-old pillar of global health and member of International Pasteur Network -- is a direct assault on international health security," Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour wrote on X.
He posted images from the site showing the building heavily damaged, with parts of the facility reduced to rubble, as reported by AFP.
On Wednesday, the Russian Embassy in Iran on Wednesday condemned a US-Israeli airstrike on the compound of the former U.S. Embassy there as it damaged a nearby Russian Orthodox cathedral.
A day earlier, Iranian media reported a wave of US-Israeli strikes on civilian facilities, including a cancer drug plant, a religious site and a desalination plant.
Israel has also targeted Iranian universities in recent days, including two in Tehran and another in Isfahan, in what Iranian authorities described as an attempt to undermine the country’s scientific progress.
On the first day of the war on 28 February, an American airstrike on a girls' primary school in the Iranian city of Minab killed 168 children and their entire teaching staff.
More than four weeks of US and Israeli war on Iran have killed at least 1,600 people, including 244 children and wounded nearly 30,000 people, according to Iranian official figures.
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