Organizations that have been attacked during the war in Iran include the Information and Communication Technology Research Institute at Isfahan University of Technology (courtesy: Hosein Tahmasebi) Almost 1400 people, including two Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter condemning the US/Israeli attacks on Iranian academic   institutions. The signatories call on the international community to “protect scientific infrastructure, defend academic life, and uphold the principle that knowledge-serving institutions must never be treated as expendable in war”. The letter, which is addressed to the United Nations secretary-general, the director-general of UNESCO, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and “the governments of all parties to the conflict”, was instigated by the theoretical condensed-matter physicist Alireza Qaiumzadeh and colleagues from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.…