Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has condemned Israel’s June 23 airstrike on Evin prison hospital, saying the regime must be held accountable for the ‘flagrant atrocity’ against Iranians.
“With each passing day, new dimensions of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s war crimes in Tehran and other Iranian cities targeted by the Israeli regime’s aggression are displayed to the public,” Baghaei wrote in a post on X Saturday.
Referring to a video capturing the aftermath of the regime’s brutal assault on Evin Prison’s medical facility, Baghaei said that the inmates’ families and friends “were trapped and burned to death under the rubble alongside a number of staffers and passersby.”
He added that “79 precious lives perished as the result of Israel’s cruel war crime.”
“No person of good conscience can remain silent in the face of such cruelties that are grave violations of international humanitarian law and blatant war crimes,” he said.
According to the Iranian diplomat, the Israeli regime “must be unequivocally condemned and held accountable for the flagrant atrocity crimes it perpetrated against Iranians.”
On June 23, as part of Israel’s recent aggression against Iran, the regime launched an airstrike on Tehran’s Evin prison, which killed prison administrative staff, soldiers, inmates, families of the prisoners, and people living nearby.
Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said the Israeli regime committed a “full-scale crime” and inflicted extensive financial and physical damage to the people who lived near the jail’s visitation and interrogation halls.
The Israeli attack, which also targeted the prison’s medical center, happened at the inmates’ visitation hours with their families and social workers, he explained.
After this incident, Iranian media reported that those held at the prison were transferred to other prisons in Tehran Province in order to protect their safety.
On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders and nuclear scientists.
The Israeli attacks also targeted military and nuclear sites as well as vital non-military infrastructure, including a building of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), healthcare centers, outreach facilities, and both residential neighborhoods and rural communities, inflicting widespread civilian harm. These attacks also caused over 900 civilian fatalities.
In response, the Iranian armed forces, led by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), launched a powerful and unprecedented retaliatory campaign, Operation True Promise III, against the Israeli regime, using many of its domestically developed new-generation missiles for the first time.
Hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones overwhelmed Israeli air defenses and struck key military, intelligence, industrial, energy, and R&D facilities across the occupied Palestinian territories.
On June 24, the Israeli regime, isolated and abandoned, declared a unilateral halt to its aggression, announced on its behalf by US President Donald Trump.
