The image shows the aftermath US-Israeli attack on Iran's University of Science and Technology. Social media
The Israeli military confirmed it targeted a facility inside Imam Hossein University in the Iranian capital, which it claims is "affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)."
Israel has been deliberately striking civilian facilities in Lebanon and Gaza, including schools and hospitals, which are protected under international law, by falsely claiming they "were used to store weapons, house administrative headquarters, or conceal tunnels belonging to resistance armed groups."
Multiple international reports over more than two years of war on both territories have disputed these claims, and such strikes have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilian victims.
Four weeks of US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran have killed more than 3,500 and wounded nearly 30,000 people, including hundreds of women and children.
The strikes have destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of residential and commercial units, oil depots, factories, hospitals and clinics, schools, and roads.
On the first day of the war on 28 February, an American airstrike on a girls' primary school in the Iranian city of Minab killed 168 children and their entire teaching staff.
The attack on the university in Tehran came hours after a university in Isfahan said it had been struck on Sunday for the second time since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran a month ago.
In a statement carried by Fars news agency, the university said the strike hit one of its research institutes, damaging several nearby buildings and causing minor injuries to four staff members.
Iranian officials condemned the targeting of academic institutions, warning of potential retaliation against US university branches in the Arab Gulf.
Several universities in the Middle East with ties to US institutions announced a shift to remote learning as a precautionary measure following threats by the IRGC to target American universities in the region in response to the strikes on Iranian campuses.
Iran’s IRGC also warned staff, faculty, and students to avoid American university campuses in the region for their own safety.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denounced the attacks on educational and academic centres, saying they reflected “desperation” and would not halt the country’s scientific progress. He called it a pattern of strikes on Iran’s intellectual infrastructure, including universities and nuclear facilities, in a post on X.
“Israel and its partner-in-crime believe that knowledge can be bombed away,” Araghchi wrote. “Reality check: your actions ooze of desperation and only inspire more pursuit of knowledge.”
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