Khaberni - The Iranian Minister of Sciences, Research and Technology, Hussein Semyai Saraf, revealed the death of 5 university professors and 60 students since the beginning of the ongoing American-Israeli war on Iran since February 28.
The minister said in media statements from one of the targeted educational headquarters: "5 professors were martyred and more than 60 students died in the Ramadan war, and 30 universities were directly attacked, our enemy has returned to the Stone Age".
Semyai added to the reporters at Shahid Beheshti University: "Attacking infrastructure is a crime against humanity".
He said: "It is unreasonable that in the era of human rights and the twenty-first century, attacking civilian places and individuals, and worse, attacking human scientific infrastructure and vital human infrastructure".
The Minister of Sciences continued: "Is there any honor in attacking a bridge? Our enemy has returned to the Stone Age, and it is not us who live in the Stone Age or that we came from the Stone Age".
The minister emphasized that "It is unknown which university will be next tomorrow.. This brutality will never end unless the academics themselves take action".
He added: "I would like to thank the foreign academics; in fact, we have seen in recent days expressions of sympathy from many foreign ministers of sciences".
He continued: "I have spoken with my counterparts in several countries. All of them consider these attacks examples of brutality, crime, and unilateral and illegal aggression".
He concluded: "I am grateful to foreign students, professors, and universities, but I ask them to be more serious and proactive and to defeat this savage enemy coming from the Stone Age and to take deterrent actions so we no longer witness attacks on civilian and scientific institutions".
