Iran Sued

NEW YORK--Columbia University has sued the government of Iran to recover $91,000 in tuition that the university extended to Iranian engineering students who lost scholarships after the Islamic revolution two years ago, university officials said last week.

Officials said the university received no money in the spring 1979 semester from an undetermined number of students sent by the government of the Shah. Their financial support was cut off when the Shah fell.

Details of the suit were unavailable, but The Columbia Daily Spectator reported that the university's suit is one of about 90 claims on Iranian assets by U.S. corporations and institutions since the Shah fell.