Strikes on Iranian universities kill 60 students since February

Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simaei-Sarraf said more than 30 Iranian universities have been directly attacked by the United States and Israel since the beginning of the war in late February.

He made the remarks in an address to reporters during a visit to the Shahid Beheshti University in the Iranian capital Tehran, which was hit in a US and Israeli airstrike on April 3, according to foreign media.

Simaei-Sarraf said five university professors and more than 60 students were killed in the strikes, describing attacks on Iranian infrastructure as "crimes against humanity."

By Jeyhun Aghazada