Around 1,500 educational facilities sustained direct or indirect damage during the war, including the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, where 168 students and staff were killed. (EPA Images pic)TEHRAN: Iran has rebuilt 1,288 schools damaged in recent attacks and returned them to service with the help of charitable donors, education minister Alireza Kazemi said, warning that the educational losses caused by school closures cannot be measured or compensated, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

Speaking at a ceremony titled Solidarity of Families and Schools in Protecting the Right to Education During the Ramadan War, Kazemi described education as a fundamental human right that must be protected under all circumstances.