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News & Current Events Mar 29, 2026 at 7:38 PM

IRGC designates American universities in the Middle East as 'legitimate targets' following strikes on Iranian campuses.

Posted by NOOBFUNK

IRGC threatens universities across Middle East | The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
IRGC threatens universities across Middle East | The Jerusalem Post
The IRGC threatened staff, students, and civilians living near universities to maintain a distance of 1 kilometer from the sites to "preserve their lives."
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blazesquall Mar 29, 2026 +34
Seems fair.
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SaatinKiss Mar 29, 2026 +12
Yea that’s fair
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Rich_Housing971 Mar 29, 2026 +5
Fair but it's still a war crime to do so, and definitely war crimes already perpetrated by the US/Israel. It's like vigilante justice- if no one is around to punish those who commit crimes, chaos and inhumane violence ensues.
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Mixer-3007 Mar 29, 2026 +9
They didn't rename it the Department of War Crimes for nothing.
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blazesquall Mar 29, 2026 +7
We're decades into bombing civilian infrastructure. No one is going to stop the US from doing that 
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Agnos Mar 29, 2026 -13
> Seems fair Iranian universities hit were part of their military nuclear program, American universities are not associated with US military... Edit: American Universities targeted by Iran are not associated with the military contrarily to the Iranian Universities bombed...making one a legitimate target and the other a war crime.
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blazesquall Mar 29, 2026 +6
Haha.. okay. The idea that American universities aren't associated with the military completely ignores the reality of defense funding... US institutions work directly with the DOD and defense contractors to research everything from aeronautics to nuclear physics.. We use the dual use label to justify striking foreign academic institutions but if that exact same standard were applied globally, almost every major research campus would be a target.. so yeah, seems fair. Furthermore, even if the claims about the Iranian universities are true, under what authority does a country get to unilaterally bomb another nation's nuclear program? Does this mean preemptively striking nuclear research facilities is now universally acceptable? If neutralizing secret nuclear programs in the Middle East is the actual goal, it's absurd to ignore the fact that other nations in the region possess unacknowledged nuclear arsenals that face zero military scrutiny.. what are your thoughts on those?
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Agnos Mar 29, 2026 -4
> so yeah, seems fair. That was my only point...not saying it is good, it is hypocritical of Iran to complain. And what is the point anyway, we know that by using cluster munition on cities Iran is already guilty of war crime...and if you want to say the USA and Israel are also guilty of war crime, it does not diminish the culpability of Iran. > what are your thoughts on those? Other countries with nuclear technology do not scream "death of America" regularly while burning our flag.
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moral_mortal Mar 29, 2026 +4
Didn't US installed a dictator in Iran after a CIA led coupe? And that US sponsored dictator was se peaceful that there was a revolution to dispose him off. You wonder the hate the US gov 
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blazesquall Mar 29, 2026 +2
What's the origin of that phrase? It wasn't in response to American foreign policy and interventions, was it? Would you prefer a dressed up rhetoric that we use? We've been calling for their end for decades.. and then trying to bring it about via sanctions, agitation, and direct engagement.  > And what is the point anyway, we know that by using cluster munition on cities Iran is already guilty of war crime.. None of the countries engaged in this signed that treaty (surprise). I guess rhetoric is pretext though.
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NotAurelStein Mar 30, 2026 +2
> American universities are not associated with US military Thank you for this, I needed a good laugh today.
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Agnos Mar 30, 2026 +1
> Thank you for this, I needed a good laugh today. Not those targeted by Iran...not sure why it is so funny...
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veggeble Mar 30, 2026 +2
> American universities are not associated with US military [Yes, they are](https://armyrotc.tamu.edu/)
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Agnos Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yes, I badly expressed what I meant....the Iranian universities targeted had military associated nuclear bomb research while the American Iran claims will be targeted do not. One is legitimate military target, one is not.
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veggeble Mar 30, 2026 +1
Why would nuclear research be the threshold for a legitimate target or not? Trump ripped up the agreement we had with Iran that prevented them from developing nuclear technology. The US has no basis to say Iran can’t develop the technology, let alone a justification for bombing them for doing so. If you’re going to say those universities in Iran are legitimate military targets, then Texas A&M surely is as well.
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Agnos Mar 30, 2026 +1
> Why would nuclear research be the threshold for a legitimate target or not? Because done in cooperation with the military makes it a legitimate target. ROTC programs teach leadership and their enrollees may or may not become part of the military and are not considered part of it...big difference you should have been able to see...
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veggeble Mar 30, 2026 +1
> ROTC programs teach leadership and their enrollees may or may not become part of the military and are not considered part of it They’re required to sign up in the later years of college if they stay in ROTC. They’re definitely associated with the military.
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nthpwr Mar 30, 2026 +1
foo aint you seen Oppenheimer?!
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AdmiralHackbar001 Mar 29, 2026 +6
I think anything American is fair game to them at this point.
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NOOBFUNK Mar 29, 2026 +18
Just read this. It seems multiple Iranian universities were targeted yesterday and today, including Isfahan University of Technology and the University of Science and Technology in Tehran. It seems the strike was from Israel as the American side didn't bother to respond to the BBC for any comments. I do not understand the logic of attacking university campuses, though. Wasn't Israel trying to "free" Iran? [https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cje4x38q8xqt?post=asset%3Ad04e39d3-4442-44d6-9333-f38d5925607d#post](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cje4x38q8xqt?post=asset%3Ad04e39d3-4442-44d6-9333-f38d5925607d#post) Unfortunate seeing the Middle East so ruined, it would have been so free from terror had it not been for Israel. It directly contributed to Hezbollah by its illegal 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2006: "When we entered Lebanon... there was no Hezbollah... It was our presence there that created Hezbollah". In the late 1970s and 1980s, they also countered the secular Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) by supporting the expansion of Mujama al-Islamiya, led by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, which eventually morphed into Hamas in 1987. Former Israeli military governor Yitzhak Segev admitted to providing budgets to mosques and social services run by Yassin's network.  The more I read about the Middle East, the more apparent it becomes that all of this is controlled opposition and serves some greater purpose that the US has to fund with its taxpayer money.
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madfrooples Mar 29, 2026 +14
The logic is to incite terror and kill young people who would make good soldiers. What Netenyahu says has no bearing on what he does, just like Trump. 
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NOOBFUNK Mar 29, 2026 -1
>*kill young people who would make good soldiers.* Gross generalization; I'm a college student myself, and not all young people in university enlist in the military.
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zzzyyyxxxqqq Mar 29, 2026 +4
The explanation is much simpler and a well known Israeli doctrine: turn all neighbouring countries into failed states by destroying infrastructure, essential industry, education, healthcare etc
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Homeless-Coward-2143 Mar 29, 2026 +3
While they get all that for free from America!
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JellyfishUnlikely223 Mar 30, 2026 +2
When are Americans going to be able to say it loud that the goal of this war is about senseless destruction. This destruction is not a by product, it is the purpose.
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hindusoul Mar 30, 2026 +1
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Capable_Diamond6251 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Iran has matched Israeli and US escalatory attacks. And as Israel wants to see a failed Iran in the wake of of this war, they will attack all civilian infrastructure that they can, leaving Iran unable to provide its citizens with the basics. Does Israel care that Iran will do the same to the Gulf States? Nope! They would love to be the only remaining power in the region. But here there is space between their goals and the Trump Admin goals (if they know them). In that space is the real danger of escalating war and expansion of the zones of contact. US leadership seems absent. Only US idiocy is evident.
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