Geneva, Switzerland – The World Health Organization (WHO) issued urgent warnings about severe public health and environmental threats after reported strikes near Iran’s Natanz Enrichment Complex and Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility, as the US-Iran war enters its fourth week.
Okay News quotes WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X: “The war in the Middle East has reached a perilous stage with strikes reportedly hitting the Natanz Enrichment Complex in Iran, and the Israeli city of Dimona, where a nuclear facility is located.” He confirmed IAEA found no abnormal off-site radiation but stressed attacks on nuclear sites escalate dangers.
Ghebreyesus called for maximum restraint: “Attacks targeting nuclear sites create an escalating threat to public health and environmental safety… Peace is the best medicine,” noting WHO’s preparedness training since hostilities began while global monitors assess fallout risks from expanded targeting beyond conventional assets.
Iran reported US-Israeli strikes on Natanz March 21 with no radioactive leakage at Shahid Ahmadi Roshan per their claims, countered by Iranian missiles hitting southern Israeli towns 13km from Dimona—injuring 160+ including serious cases though IAEA detected no facility damage.
Natanz, Iran’s primary uranium enrichment hub, stands temporarily closed amid conflict; last June’s US strikes on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—hailed by President Trump as obliterating Iran’s nuclear program—saw Tehran claim evacuated sites spared irreversible harm with critical components pre-moved.
The WHO alert underscores nuclear escalation fears as conventional war morphs into high-stakes infrastructure attacks, threatening contamination cascades across populated zones and demanding global de-escalation to avert humanitarian catastrophe.
 issued urgent warnings about severe public health and environmental threats after reported strikes near Iran's Natanz Enrichment Complex and Israel's Dimona nuclear facility, as the US-Iran war enters its fourth week.){kind=link}