Developing Knowledge, Spirituality Al-Mustafa University’s Mission
Hojat-ol-Islam Ali Abbasi noted that the academic center has had opponents and enemies since its establishment.
Hojat-ol-Islam Abbasi stressed, however, that despite all difficulties and hostilities from the enemies of knowledge and culture, it will continue its path more brilliantly than in the past with the blessing of God.
Al-Mustafa International University is an open university that is based in the north-central Iranian city of Qom.
Earlier this month, Washington announced the name of the university as well as Iran’s new ambassador to Yemen as the latest additions to the litany of the US sanctions against Iran.
In imposing the measures, the body groundlessly claimed that both the academic center and the envoy were linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
In a statement, the university reminded that the sanctions were announced despite the fact that the academic center is a member of the International Association of Universities, “whose graduates are known across the world as promoters of rationality and moderation, and whose scientific publications are aimed at spreading peace, friendship, and fraternity among nations.”
The statement added that by imposing the coercive measure against the Iranian university, the US administration once again betrayed its “imperialist disposition and arrogant attitude,” saying slapping sanctions against such academic entity “only signifies antagonism towards science.”
The university further noted that the United States, itself, was responsible for the creation of violent and terrorist outfits such as the Daesh group, and provided support for the reactionary regional regimes, which are responsible for spreading violence, terrorism, and extremism in the region and across the world.
It wondered how Washington had considered itself rightful to take such a coercive measure against the university, while it holds such an abysmal record.
The university, however, said history bears witness to the fact that such “hostility toward culture” has achieved nothing for those practicing it.
