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In an address to Pakistani scholars and seminary students on Sunday, the senior cleric described the move as unethical and illegitimate and a sign of the United States’ enmity toward knowledge and humanity.
He said Al-Mustafa International University is a scholarly and educational institution that like other such institutions strives to develop thought and help the society and humanity.
It is known internationally and has trained many prominent scholars and researchers, Allama Naqvi said.
He added that the university’s graduates have played a major role in strengthening Muslim unity and promoting Islam.
Last week, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 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).
The US resumed its economic war against Iran in 2018 under President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration’s policy of “maximum pressure” against the Islamic Republic. Under the approach, Washington left an international nuclear accord between the Islamic Republic and world powers, and returned the inhumane sanctions that the deal had lifted.
Both Washington’s departure from the agreement and its reinstatement of the sanctions are in outright violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 that has endorsed the nuclear agreement.
