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After threats from the Revolutionary Guards, the American University of Beirut goes online

The American University of Beirut (AUB) announced on Sunday that its classes would be held online for the next two days, after threats from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to target American universities in the Middle East. “We learned this morning that threats had been made against American universities in the region,” said the president of the prestigious university, Fadlo Khouri, in a statement.

“We currently have no evidence of direct threats against our university, its campuses, or its medical center (…) but out of caution, we will operate fully online on Monday and Tuesday,” he added. The Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, threatened on Sunday to target American universities in the Middle East, after reporting the destruction of two universities in Iran by American-Israeli strikes.

“If the American government wants its universities in the region to avoid retaliation (…), it must condemn the bombing of universities in an official statement before Monday, March 30 at noon,” they said in a statement.