According to Mehr News Agency, the twenty-first session of the country's Supreme Council of Health and Food Security was held on Sunday, October 25, 2026, chaired by Masoud Pezeshkian and attended by the council's members, including the ministers of health, treatment and medical education, agriculture jihad, education, and justice, the heads of the Environment Protection Organization and the Standards Organization, and other council members.

At this session, the president, emphasizing the importance of education and health for the country's future, added: Proper education of students and children and raising them to build the country's future with qualities such as capability, commitment, honesty and creativity is one of this government's important priorities.

Pezeshkian, emphasizing that we will make every effort to develop educational spaces and improve the methods of educating and raising children, said: The subject of education and equipping schools is followed up in the government almost on a daily basis. We consider the proper upbringing of the country's children our duty, because we believe that if we raise our children and students properly, we will no longer witness the problems we face in the country today.

The president went on to emphasize the importance of the health of the people and society, and stated: Attending to people's health is another important duty of the government, and this matter, while connected with religious and doctrinal instructions, is on the government's agenda with a fair view toward all people, regardless of any ethnicity or race.

Pezeshkian stated: All our effort is that no danger threatens the people of the country; on this path we are not looking for commands, prohibitions and orders; our goal is to attract the collective companionship and cooperation of all agencies and the participation of the people themselves.

The president, emphasizing the need for the cooperation of governors across the country for the success of the programs and the achievement of the government's goals in the fields of education and health, said: Through our efforts we must put an end to the injustices in these two important fields. People must know that we want to, and are trying, so that no danger threatens them, and the government and the country's managers consider this matter their main agenda and duty.

Pezeshkian, pointing out that in our plans and programs we must not prefer temporary profit over the country's permanent interests and foresight, said: The media and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting must attach importance to people's physical and mental health and cooperate in informing people along the path of ensuring individual and public health and hygiene.

The president, also referring to the national documents ratified at the session of the country's Supreme Council of Health and Food Security with the aim of ensuring society's health, said: In the details of implementing plans and programs, the use of new and digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, will be very helpful. Our ultimate goal must be the health of children and society.

Pezeshkian, stating that social harms and hazards threaten society's health and will bring many problems with them, declared: The tensions that arose in Dey were mostly caused by social harms. We must see the people's problems and needs and the pain of the youth, and find a remedy for them. The main duty of all of us is to help solve society's problems.

The president emphasized: If people trust us and know that we want to help them and solve their problems, they will certainly accompany us. The programs drawn up along this path must be designed so that the duties of the agencies are completely clear, and, using the capacity of all provinces and provincial managers, we will implement the programs across the country.

Pezeshkian stated: Attracting people's participation in neighborhood-oriented plans will play a very important role in the success of our programs, and officials must also be accountable for their responsibilities. All of us, regardless of any taste or belief, must seek that the people of the country live healthily in body and mind, and that our children, with proper education and upbringing, can guarantee the country's future.

Before the president's remarks, Mohammadreza Zafarqandi, the minister of health, treatment and medical education, described the goal of his ministry's plans and programs as "health-oriented" prevention instead of "treatment-oriented," and said: The cooperation and companionship of all agencies and ministries, and especially governors in the country's provinces, is necessary for the precise and successful implementation of the programs and resolutions of the Supreme Council of Health, with the aim of ensuring and guaranteeing the health of the people and society.

The minister of health, treatment and medical education declared: Our main goal is that, with the cooperation of all agencies, we can offer health-related programs and training to the people in society, because we believe that society's health strengthens social capital.

At the twenty-first session of the country's Supreme Council of Health and Food Security, chaired by the president, 5 national strategic documents in the field of the health system and society's hygiene were ratified.

The National Document on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, the National Strategy Document for Improving Drinking Water Quality in the five-year period 1405 to 1410, the National Health and Climate Change Strategy Document, the National Document on Early Childhood Development, and the Comprehensive Document on Disaster and Incident Risk Management in the Health System were ratified by the council members.

Source: Mehr News Agency