STAT News – Biotech
Opinion: The U.S. needs to be worried about Iranian biological materials
The war with Iran has focused the world’s attention on nuclear weapons and oil. Those risks are real. But there is a third category of danger that the conflict has brought into sharp relief — one that the United States is far less prepared to handle than most people realize.
Iran likely has a biological weapons capability. This has been the view of the U.S. government for several years now, predating the second Trump administration.