US-Israeli attacks on universities reveal their enmity toward Iran’s scientific progress: FM spokesman
The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly denounced the US-Israeli attacks on Iranian universities, saying that the acts of aggression clearly attest to the Washington and Tel Aviv regimes’ enmity toward Iran’s scientific development.
“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.
The IRGC declares that Israeli and American universities in West Asia have become targets of Iran’s retaliatory strikes following attacks on a major Iranian university.
The spokesperson said that science and technology are not commodities imported into the country and do not originate from bricks and Iron bars.
“They are rather durable and progressing constituents of an old civilization, which provides its achievements and innovations to the international community amicably and respectfully,” Baghaei also wrote.
On Saturday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said universities of the occupying regime of Israel and the United States in the West Asia region are legitimate targets for Iran after both terrorist regimes attacked Iranian universities.
