The Letter of President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Editor of the Lancet

11 Oct. 2023
Professor Richard Horton,
Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet Medical Journal

Palestine-never forget
Following the publication of your article on September 16, 2023 in the Lancet entitled "Mahsa Amini - never forget," which contained completely false information about the death of a citizen of this country as well as health care personnel, doctors and specialists of our country have written a response. I sent it to you on the 18th of September for publication, but you did not respond. Now that I am writing a second letter for the scientific medical journal Lancet, the world is witnessing the unprecedented crime of the racist settler apartheid regime against the defenseless people of Palestine. I am writing this for you, which, unlike your undocumented article, is based on numerous documents and is completely verifiable. My evidence consists of hundreds of videos and written observations of thousands of people who have documented the crimes of this colonial regime against the Palestinian people over the years. In this article, I list some of the crimes of the Zionist regime that have been carefully recorded in history. I do this because you have ignored everything that has happened over past decades, and not a single word has been written about these crimes against humanity in your magazine. However, there is no doubt that the scientists and people of Iran and the world will not forget these crimes.
I will review some of the crimes of the regime based on last year's statistics:
1300 Palestinian villages destroyed since 1948.
800,000 people out of a population of 2.5 million displaced from Palestinian villages.
70 mass killings since the occupation (Sabra and Shatila, etc.).
More than 15,000 Palestinian martyrs since the occupation.
6.7 million Palestinian refugees across the world.
28.7 percent of Palestinian refugees live in 58 camps. 10 camps in Jordan, 9 camps in Syria, 12 camps in Lebanon, 19 camps in the West Bank, and 8 camps in the Gaza Strip.
2 thousand martyrs and 10 thousand wounded just in the 51-day war.

As this article is being written, Gaza is under the complete siege of the apartheid regime, and children, women, and defenseless people are continuously and blindly being bombed. Thousands of children, women, and men have been killed or injured. The regime has also cut off water and electricity, and the entry of any kind of aid, including food, medicine, and medical equipment, into Gaza is prohibited. I hope Lancet medical magazine, by including my letter as the president of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences, will record this unique tragedy and crime of the century, which continues amidst the silence of the western scientific and medical community. If you choose not publish, be sure that your indifference will be recorded in history.
                                                                                                   Yours sincerely,
                                                                                          Seyed Alireza Marandi, M.D.
                                                                                  President Academy of Medical Sciences