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"Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University has been left in ruins after it was reportedly struck on Friday, amid the United States and Israel's ongoing military operations against Iran. Footage from Saturday shows the aftermath, with damaged buildings surrounded by rubble and debris, as collapsed walls, broken doors and shattered windows litter the campus. "More than 30 of our universities have been targeted, and more than 60 students have been martyred," said Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, Iran's Science Minister. "They have been directly targeted," he asserted. "The United States and Israel have directly targeted them. These crimes carry both international responsibility and moral responsibility." Sarraf claimed that the US and Israeli attacks aimed to 'halt Iran's scientific development,' as he described the nation's scientific progress as "a shared achievement for all humanity". He stressed that Iran would pursue all available legal avenues to document 'these crimes' and ensure accountability. "We have also filed cases regarding the destruction of Iranian cultural and historical sites. [...] We are also collecting documents at universities. All of this will eventually be submitted to the Legal Vice Presidency of Iran," the minister shared. The Iranian Red Crescent has blamed the United States and Israel for the destruction, claiming their forces 'targeted' the Laser and Plasma Institute at Shahid Beheshti University. Neither the United States nor Israel have commented on the specific incident or claimed responsibility for the attack. The Israeli military said earlier that it had carried out 'strikes on key infrastructure sites in Tehran,' claiming to have hit "a military site responsible for protecting the regime's research and development facilities." Tensions have escalated across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran on February 28, amid diplomatic efforts aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear and missile programmes. Iran responded with retaliatory strikes on Israel and US assets in the region, with reports of explosions in several Gulf countries. Tehran later confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with his son Mojtaba Khamenei named as his successor."
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