Iran's renowned Sharif University of Technology in Tehran was targeted by an Israeli-US strike in the early hours of Monday, hitting and damaging its data centre, as well as the compound’s mosque and laboratories, state media reported.

The data centre supports Iran’s artificial intelligence platform as well as other digital services.

Israel said it would be attacking alleged military infrastructure within Iranian academic institutions, claiming they are used by the Iranian army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The university is among Iran’s most prestigious, and is considered to be the country’s answer to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said in a post on the X platform that Sharif University of Technology was attacked by a "bunker-buster bomb," which reflects "the madness and ignorance of US President Donald Trump".