“In recent days, one of the IRGC’s central military infrastructure sites was recently struck, located within the compound of Imam Hossein University , the IRGC’s primary military academic institution, which also serves as an emergency asset for the regime’s military bodies,” a statement by the Israeli military said.

Senior Iranian officials, including former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, had previously visited the university.

“During the operation, the IDF struck military infrastructure within the university multiple times in order to inflict significant damage to the regime’s weapons production and development capabilities,” the Israeli military said.

It added that it had destroyed wind tunnels beneath the university, its chemistry centre, and a technology and engineering centre of its mechanics and development group , which the Israelis said were all used for the development of weapons.