{"id":423076,"date":"2026-05-03T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/423076\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:46:17","slug":"iran-plans-to-turn-university-site-hit-in-us-israeli-strikes-into-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/423076\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plans to turn university site hit in US-Israeli strikes into museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      &#8220;The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university to remain a document of the country&#8217;s scientific oppression in history,&#8221; said Zafarollah Kalantari, head of Isfahan University of Technology on Saturday    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    BSS\/AFP\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      03 May, 2026, 01:40 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 03 May, 2026, 01:44 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      An Iranian flag stands in the rubble following a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 4. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"451\/254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/iran_flag_iranwar.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" alt=\"An Iranian flag stands in the rubble following a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 4. Photo: Reuters\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          An Iranian flag stands in the rubble following a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 4. Photo: Reuters        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Iranian authorities plan to turn a bombsite at a university in central Iran into a museum about the impact of US-Israeli strikes, an official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university to remain a document of the country&#8217;s scientific oppression in history,&#8221; said Zafarollah Kalantari, head of Isfahan University of Technology on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He added that other land had been allocated for the &#8220;construction of a new building and provision of advanced equipment&#8221; for the university, according to the official IRNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Kalantari said initial assessments had put the cost of the damage to the university&#8217;s buildings and facilities at around $11 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">US-Israeli strikes hit the institution in Isfahan &#8212; among the largest universities in Iran &#8212; in March during the war that began a month earlier and subsequently spread across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Officials have said that strikes hit more than 30 universities across Iran, including in the capital Tehran, as well as residential areas and other civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">A ceasefire has been in place since 8 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university to remain a document&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-423076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}