Iran UN envoy calls US-Israeli attacks on universities ‘unprecedented barbarism
Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Amir Saeid Iravani, has denounced “unprecedented barbarism” by the United States and Israel as the two regimes deliberately target scientific institutions and universities across Iran
The intentional targeting of scientific institutions and universities constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime,” Iravani said on Monday in a letter to the United Nations secretary-general and the UN Security Council president, a day after a US-Israeli airstrike hit prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
The following is the full text of the Iranian ambassador’s letter:
Excellency,
Further to my previous communications regarding the continued and deliberate targeting of civilian objects and infrastructure by the United States and the Israeli regime, I wish to bring to the urgent attention of Your Excellency and the members of the Security Council yet another grave breaches of international humanitarian law, acts of terrorism and war crimes being perpetrated through the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilian objects in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In the early hours of 6 April 2026, Sharif University of Technology was attacked by the Israeli regime and the United States. This unlawful attack caused 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, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and other facilities. This heinous act follows another war crime perpetrated by the aggressors on 3 April 2026, when parts of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, including the Laser and Plasma Research Institute, were severely damaged. The intentional targeting of scientific institutions and universities constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime.
Such barbarism, unprecedented in modern history, forms part of a broader and systematic policy, as openly acknowledged by the President of the United States and the criminal Prime Minister of the rogue Israeli regime, and constitutes a grave threat to international peace and security, demanding immediate attention and accountability. The United States and the Israeli regime must bear full responsibility for the commission of these atrocious war crimes.
The Islamic Republic of Iran calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Security Council to unequivocally condemn these deliberate and heinous acts constituting war crimes and State terrorism directed against civilian objects and infrastructure.
The Security Council must take immediate, decisive and concrete measures to halt the ongoing criminal and unlawful acts of the United States and the Israeli regime and to ensure that all those responsible are held fully accountable under international law for the deliberate pursuit of policies resulting in war crimes and acts of State terrorism targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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