The US And Israel Have Bombed One Of Iran's Top Universities In Its Latest Airstrikes Across The Country
Iran called it an attempt to weaken the country's scientific and cultural foundations.
The US and Israel have bombed one of Iran's top universities, the Sharif University of Technology, as part of airstrikes that killed at least 34 people across the country.
On Monday, April 6, US and Israeli forces struck the university, one of Iran's leading scientific universities that is often compared to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, in Tehran, causing significant damage to laboratories, a mosque and nearby infrastructure, including a gas facility, according to Al Jazeera.
On the same day, Israel's military also struck Iran's largest petrochemical facility, located in Asaluyeh, a site that Israel said is responsible for about 50% of Iran's petrochemical production.
The US-Israeli strikes across Iran on Monday killed at least 34 people, including children in multiple cities such as Tehran, Bandar Abbas, Shiraz, Isfahan and Karaj.
The head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) intelligence organization, Major-General Majid Khademi, was also killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Monday.
Iranian officials called the attacks on the university a “war crime” and accused the US of using bunker-buster bombs.
Iran's vice president Mohammad Reza Aref, who is an engineer and alumnus of the university, said the attack was "a symbol of Trump's madness and ignorance."
Iran's Ministry of Science said at least 21 universities have been damaged in strikes since the US and Israel launched their joint unprovoked war on Iran on Feb. 28, and academics themselves have been targeted.
Iran called it an attempt to weaken the country's scientific and cultural foundations.
In response, the IRGC declared American universities in the region "legitimate targets."
This led the American University of Beirut to restrict access to all but essential staff, and universities in Education City in Doha, where Georgetown, Cornell and Northwestern all have campuses, closed their premises, the Washington Post reported.
The attacks on Monday came after Trump threatened on Tuesday, April 7, to destroy Iran's top electricity generation plants and bridges in the country unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz
He has also threatened to bomb water desalination plants, according to Al Jazeera.
These are civilian targets that cannot be struck under international law.
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