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Attacks on Universities: A War on Knowledge and Progress
When universities become targets, the battlefield expands from military power to a society’s capacity to learn and rebuild.
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Episode 11
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Attacks on universities move war beyond military sites and into the institutions that produce knowledge, train future generations and support national development. Speaking amid the damaged buildings of Sharif University of Technology, Dr. Masoud Shadnam describes the destruction of the ICTC center and nearby facilities as an attack on civilian infrastructure.
The wider implication is unmistakable: targeting a university is not only an assault on buildings. It is an assault on people, scientific progress and the long-term capacity of a country to recover.
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