Overview
- The Israeli military said it struck IRGC-linked infrastructure at Tehran’s Imam Hossein University, casting some campus facilities as part of weapons development.
- Iran’s Ministry of Science says at least 21 universities have been damaged since the war began, and CNN-verified footage shows a research center at Iran University of Science and Technology reduced to rubble.
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it would target American- and Israeli-affiliated universities in the Middle East, leading schools in Lebanon to go remote and keeping US-linked campuses in Qatar online-only.
- Iran’s universities plan to start the new term in early April online, extending a shift that keeps students and staff off campuses as strikes and threats continue.
- Legal experts say universities remain civilian sites unless used for military operations, which means direct strikes could be war crimes without clear proof of such use.