Iran has condemned the US-Israeli attacks on universities, stating that such “barbarism” is unprecedented in modern history.

In a letter circulated to the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Iran’s Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, referred to the “grave breaches of international humanitarian law, acts of terrorism and war crimes being perpetrated through the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilian objects” in Iran.

According to the letter, Sharif University of Technology was attacked in the early hours of Monday, causing severe damage to the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Department of Philosophy of Science, the Nano and Environmental Research Institutes, the Convergent Research Institute building, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, among other facilities.

The attack on Sharif University follows another war crime perpetrated on 3 April 2026, when parts of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran—including the Laser and Plasma Research Institute—were also severely damaged.

He noted that “the intentional targeting of scientific institutions and universities constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime.”

Ambassador Iravani called upon UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the Security Council to unequivocally condemn the attacks as “state terrorism directed against civilian objects and infrastructure.”

He further demanded that the Security Council take “immediate, decisive and concrete measures” to halt the ongoing criminal acts of the United States and the Israeli regime, and to ensure full accountability under international law for those responsible.

Sharif University of Technology is not the first university to be targeted by the invading coalition in the past month.

Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University and University of Science and Technology, the Faculty of Pharmacy at Shiraz University, Isfahan University of Technology, parts of the Science and Technology Campus and the Veterinary Specialized Hospital Campus at Urmia University have been hit throughout the unlawful aggression.

The United States and Israel launched their criminal aggression against Iran on February 28 by assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with senior military commanders.

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