{"id":249525,"date":"2026-04-02T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249525"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:16:35","slug":"medical-research-center-in-tehran-targeted-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249525\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical research center in Tehran targeted in attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A medical research center in Tehran, founded in 1920, has been targeted in an attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/2\/iran-war-live-trump-to-address-nation-tehran-denies-seeking-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> reports, citing Iran&rsquo;s Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health, stated that the attack caused significant damage to the center.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The aggression against Pasteur Institute of Iran&mdash;a century-old pillar of global health &amp; member of International Pasteur Network&mdash;is a direct assault on international health security. This violates Geneva Conventions &amp; IHL principles,&rdquo; Kermanpour said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical research center in Tehran, founded in 1920, has been targeted in an attack, Al Jazeera reports, citing Iran&rsquo;s Ministry of Health. Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health, stated that the attack caused significant damage to the center. &ldquo;The aggression against Pasteur Institute of Iran&mdash;a century-old pillar of global health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249528,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249525\/revisions\/249528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}