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Iran has accused the US of launching a “barbaric attack” near a children’s cancer hospital in Ahvaz south-west of the country.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the hospital was forced to evacuate, causing “severe suffering and anxiety” for the children being treated there.

double quotation mark Shahid Baqaei Hospital, a children’s cancer treatment centre in Ahvaz, was evacuated last night after the US attacked a nearby location.

This barbaric attack, reminiscent of Israel’s atrocities against healthcare facilities, caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalised children, and forced the emergency evacuation of 211 patients undergoing chemotherapy.

This constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings – children who are bravely fighting for their lives.”

The US did not immediately comment on the allegation. The US military has intensified its strikes and widened its targets in Iran in recent days, with Iranian state media reporting explosions in several cities in the north and south and around the capital Tehran.