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Hospitals are not legitimate targets for military attacks. Attacking them is by no means a "strategy," but rather a crime against humanity.
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949 - Article 18 - Protection of civilian hospitals
Oh I agree with your statement 100%. But as I stated I am only taking the title at face value. Places where vaccines and medications are produced are not the same as hospitals. Destroying these sites as well have no military value. The only value in it is to do long term harm to the people of the country. This statement I am making is not saying I am for it. It is just why I think they are doing it. And once again I am not for it. Hurting innocent populations of people in any way is unacceptable. We shouldn’t even be doing any of this to begin with.
In my view, an attack on any health infrastructure - of course - constitutes a war crime, a crime against humanity.
I consider this type of warfare despicable and contrary to international law (which is what the US's illegal war of aggression against Iran is, anyway - not any better than the illegal war of aggression that Russia is waging against the people of Ukraine).
Of course, Iran is ruled by a barbaric, fundamentalist regime - but that does not give equally fundamentalist criminals, namely the horrendous US regime, the right to trample on international law like they do.
We will likely never find common ground on this issue, because I consider this war itself to be a crime, and all the more so given how barbarically it is being waged.
Edit: Btw - what you’re presenting here as a clever "strategy" pretty much fits the definition of genocide, since it involves wiping a people off the face of the earth using precisely those kinds of methods. Maybe look up the term or ask the US allies in Israel - they know a thing or two about the subject.