US-Israeli terrorist war damaged 150 Iranian historical, cultural sites: Ministry
Iran's Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts says US-Israeli terrorist attacks have so far caused damage to 149 historical and cultural monuments across 20 provinces.
The damaged sites include five registered on the World Heritage Sites list, seven historical structures and 54 museums, it added on Thursday.
Latest assessments show that Tehran, Isfahan, and Kurdistan provinces had the highest number of damaged historical monuments with 70, 27, and 13 monuments, respectively.
Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Lorestan, and Qom were the other provinces that suffered the most damage from the aggression, with 12, 5, 4, and 3 monuments, respectively.
The unprovoked US-Israeli aggression on Iran began on February 28 with airstrikes that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders and targeted civilian infrastructure, residential areas, educational institutes and historical and cultural sites.
The Iranian armed forces unleashed 100 waves of successful retaliatory strikes against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.
The Iranian ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations on Wednesday said that the US-Israeli attacks on the country’s civilian space and communications infrastructure during the imposed war were tantamount to “acts of state terrorism.”
In letters addressed to the UN chief and the Security Council president, Amir Saeid Iravani said the aggressor regimes deliberately targeted Iran's civilian, medical, health and scientific centers.
He cited space centers at universities, Space Research Institute, Satellite Systems Research Institute, Advanced Space Transportation Research Institute and Space Propulsion Research Institute, and Mahdasht Space Center, as well as satellite ground control equipment at Khayyam Observatory, and 30 terrestrial transmitter stations of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
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