SAEDNEWS: Iran’s ambassador to Denmark accuses the global medical community of abetting Israel’s strikes on hospitals by remaining conspicuously silent.
According to Saed News, Ambassador Mohammad Reza Sajadi has fired a salvo at international health authorities for their “deafening silence” over Israel’s bombardment of medical facilities in Iran and Gaza. In a letter addressed to Denmark’s health minister, Sophie Løhde Jakobsen, Sajadi characterised the attacks as blatant breaches of the Geneva Conventions and fundamental humanitarian norms.
Chronicling the damage, he noted that in just 12 days of hostilities, eight hospitals, 11 ambulances and a Red Crescent centre were struck—alongside collateral destruction of nearby clinics, including the one at Evin Prison. At least 18 medical personnel, doctors among them, were killed or wounded, none of whom were involved in any military capacity.
Mr Sajadi dismissed Israel’s claims—that Hamas had commandeered hospitals or used civilians as shields—as “baseless excuses” unworthy of any dispassionate observer. “The debris and casualties speak more eloquently than any propaganda line,” he wrote, insisting that hospitals exist to preserve life, not to become theatres of war.
Drawing on Gaza’s recent tragedy, he warned that the moral authority of physicians and aid agencies risked collapse unless they publicly repudiated such assaults. In his view, “silence in the face of brutality ceases to be neutrality and becomes complicity.”
By explicitly challenging Western‑based organisations that profess allegiance to human rights and the rule of law, Tehran’s envoy has raised the stakes in a diplomatic gambit: will the custodians of global health defend their own principles, or allow them to be shelved in the crossfire of geopolitics?
