Bombsite at Iranian university to be turned into ‘war museum’

Iran’s authorities plan to turn the heavily bombed Isfahan University of Technology in the centre of the country into a museum about the impact of US -Israeli strikes.

“The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university to remain a document of the country’s scientific oppression in history,” said the head of the institution, Zafarollah Kalantari.

Other areas have been allocated for the “construction of a new building and provision of advanced equipment” for the university, the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.

Kalantari said initial assessments put the cost of the damage to the university’s infrastructure at about $11m.

US-Israeli strikes hit the institution in March after the war began on February 28 and subsequently spread across the Middle East.

Officials say US-Israeli strikes hit more than 30 universities across Iran, including in the capital, Tehran, as well as residential areas and other civilian infrastructure. (Aljazeera)