Strongly condemning the US-Israeli assault on Iranian universities, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that enemy’s attacks on academic and scientific facilities exhibits their enmity in direction of 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 observe printed on Sunday.
It got here in response to the US-Israeli bombing of Isfahan University of Technology on Wednesday and a strike in opposition to Tehran University of Science and Technology on Friday.
The senior Iranian diplomat famous that regardless that the concentrating on of universities is regrettable and indicative of the invaders’ vicious nature and their enmity in direction of the Iranian nation’s scientific progress, it marks a badge of honor for the Islamic Republic’s scientific and analysis facilities.
“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 said.
He emphasised that the enemies’ newest transfer will fail to bear any fruit, similar to their earlier determined expertise.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has introduced the universities belonging to the US and Israeli regime in West Asia area are the legitimate targets of the Iranian army forces.
Warning to the terrorist US forces and legal Zionist regime, the IRGC declared on Saturday that US-Israeli aggressors struck Tehran University of Science and Technology (TUST).
This is whereas that the aggressors focused Iranian universities and scientific facilities for a number of instances.
From now on, all universities of the occupying regime of Israel and the United States within the West Asian area are Iran’s legitimate goal, the IRGC warned.
The IRGC suggested all college staffers, college students of American universities within the area and residents dwelling across the academic facilities to remain one-kilometer away from the aforementioned universities to guard their lives.