Sri Lanka, April 4 -- Iran's science minister said more than 30 Iranian universities have faced "direct attacks" so far during the war with the US and Israel, according to the state-aligned Iran Students' News Agency.

Hossein Simaei Sarraf, Iran's minister of science, research and technology, said "non-military sites and essential infrastructure for education and research have been targeted," ISNA reported. "Today, millions of schoolchildren and university students have been deprived of education and research."

Buildings at the Shahid Beheshti University, a prestigious university in Tehran, were damaged by a US-Israeli strike yesterday, the Iranian Red Crescent and local media said.

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