Iran denounces attacks on academic centers; enemy universities legitimate targets

TABNAK, Mar. 29- Iran's Foreign Ministry condemns US-Israeli attack on Iranian universities and IRGC has announced the universities belonging to the US and Israeli regime in West Asia region as legitimate targets.

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Date: 29 March 2026 - 12:39

Strongly condemning the US-Israeli attack on Iranian universities, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that enemy’s attacks on academic and scientific centers shows their enmity towards Iran’s scientific progress.

“Targeting of universities and scientific centers is not something conventional in any armed conflict, unless the enemy reaches that level of desperation that mistakenly believes that it can block the dynamic flow of science and industry by physically destroying a scientific facility,” Esmaeil Baghaei wrote in a note published on Sunday.

It came in response to the US-Israeli bombing of Isfahan University of Technology on Wednesday and a strike against Tehran University of Science and Technology on Friday.

The senior Iranian diplomat noted that even though the targeting of universities is regrettable and indicative of the invaders’ vicious nature and their enmity towards the Iranian nation’s scientific progress, it marks a badge of honor for the Islamic Republic’s scientific and research centers.

“Enemies target places from where they have been hit hard. No strike is more stinging than to see science and technology anchored in the homegrown capabilities of the young Iranian generation, which has reached a point where Iran is now more reliant on its own capacities than any foreign country,” Baghaei stated.

He emphasized that the enemies’ latest move will fail to bear any fruit, just like their previous desperate technology.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced the universities belonging to the US and Israeli regime in West Asia region are the legitimate targets of the Iranian military forces.

Warning to the terrorist US forces and criminal Zionist regime, the IRGC declared on Saturday that US-Israeli aggressors struck Tehran University of Science and Technology (TUST).

This is while that the aggressors targeted Iranian universities and scientific centers for several times.

From now on, all universities of the occupying regime of Israel and the United States in the West Asian region are Iran’s legitimate target, the IRGC warned.

The IRGC advised all faculty staffers, students of American universities in the region and residents living around the academic centers to stay one-kilometer away from the aforementioned universities to protect their lives.