TEHRAN, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Monday strongly condemned a U.S. and Israeli attack on the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
He made the remarks in a post on social media platform X after Israeli and U.S. fighter aircraft carried out airstrikes against the university early Monday, severely damaging the building of its information technology center and a gas substation near the academic center's mosque.
"Israeli-U.S. aggressors have bombed the MIT of Iran. This follows attacks on other universities," Araghchi said.
At a weekly press conference, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the university was struck with a bunker buster.
On Saturday, Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simaei-Sarraf said more than 30 Iranian universities had been directly attacked by the United States and Israel since the beginning of the war in late February.
On Feb. 28, Israel and the United States launched joint attacks on Tehran and several other Iranian cities, killing Iran's then Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with senior military commanders and civilians. Iran responded by launching waves of missile and drone strikes targeting Israel and U.S. bases and assets in the Middle East. ■
