International condemnation is mounting after a US-Israeli strike heavily damaged Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, one of Iran’s leading academic institutions. US Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari criticised the attack, describing the university as “Iran’s MIT” and questioning the targeting of a campus in a densely populated capital. Sharif University, renowned for its excellence in science, engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) programmes, has reportedly sustained extensive damage.

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