Iranian university to turn satellite facility destroyed in US-Israeli aggression into war museum

An official at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) has announced plans to transform the university’s heavily damaged satellite research facility — destroyed during US-Israeli airstrikes — into a war museum.

Morteza Esmaeili, deputy for administrative and financial affairs at the IUST, said remnants recovered from the rubble, including signs, metal structures, and damaged construction materials, will be preserved and displayed as part of the planned museum.

“We intend to use the remaining pieces from the debris removal operation in the museum as historical evidence of the aggression carried out against the university,” he said.

Esmaeili added that while some materials could also be transferred to the Imam Reza Documentation and Archive Center located on campus, the university’s primary goal is to establish the museum directly at the site of destruction.

The official said the initiative aims to preserve the history and scientific achievements of the university during the “Ramadan imposed war.”

According to Esmaeili, the facility’s “clean room” — previously used in satellite development projects — survived the bombing and may later be integrated into a newly reconstructed building.

Iran University of Science and Technology was targeted three times during the unprovoked US-Israeli aggression launched in late February, suffering extensive damage across several academic and research facilities.

The first strike occurred on March 9, when an air raid on the Resalat area, east of Tehran, caused severe damage to the university’s Farjam dormitory due to nearby explosions.

Windows and interior walls collapsed, though no students were killed because the dormitory was empty at the time.

However, students’ personal belongings and equipment, including laptops, remained trapped beneath the rubble. The dormitory is currently unusable.

A second attack on March 23 targeted a building on Malekpour Street near the southern side of the campus, inflicting major damage on the faculties of automotive engineering and railway engineering, the student affairs department, and the university’s mechanical research center.

Windows shattered and false ceilings collapsed across multiple buildings.

The most devastating strike came in the early hours of March 29, when the university’s Satellite Research Center was directly hit in a US-Israeli airstrike.

The building was almost completely destroyed.

Nearby facilities — including Physics Buildings 1 and 2, the Faculty of Basic Sciences, the Faculty of Advanced Technologies, parts of the Imam Reza Archive Center, the university administration building, and the campus mosque — also sustained varying levels of damage.

University officials said offices belonging to faculty members in the physics, mathematics, language, and basic sciences departments were also rendered effectively unusable following the attacks.

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