“The Most Horrifying Day” for Iranian Academics

Tehran, MINA – Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian academic, recounted a harrowing firsthand account after walking through the campus of Iran University of Science and Technology, which had been bombed by the US and Israel.

“Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic,” the female scholar wrote on X on Sunday, as reported by Press TV.

“Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran. I was stunned by the devastation. Just last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms are crushed, and hallways are filled with dust and shards of glass,” she said.

She described seeing professors’ offices still on fire, and a newly renovated building where students used to gather for events and socializing — now completely destroyed.

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A student, in tears, told her, “My professor’s office is still a little on fire. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grades.”

Doutaghi noted that this is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of the country’s homegrown technological achievement.

“A week ago, one of its professors was killed. Yesterday, they bombed it,” she said, referring to Dr. Saeed Shamghadri, a prominent scholar and associate professor at Iran University of Science and Technology, who was killed in a US-Israeli strike targeting his home in northern Tehran last week.

Dr. Shamghadri’s son, Mohammad, and his daughter, Reyhaneh, were also killed in the attack, which occurred on the 24th day of what the article describes as an unjustified and unlawful war of aggression.

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He had served as an associate professor and deputy researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology.

“From sanctions, to targeted assassinations, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there is a clear pattern: de-development and de-industrialization, the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own feet,” Doutaghi wrote.

Thirty days have passed since the US-Israel aggression against Iran on February 28, 2026, and no ceasefire is in sight. While neighboring countries have pursued diplomatic channels to broker a resolution, the conflict shows little sign of abating. Its consequences now extend far beyond the battlefield, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent shockwaves through the global economy, underscoring how the cost of this war is being borne well beyond Iran’s borders.[]

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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