New Delhi, April 4 -- Iranian Science Minister Hossein Simai Sarraf on Saturday said that over 30 universities nationwide have been hit by US-Israeli strikes since the conflict erupted on February 28.

"To date, more than 30 universities have been directly targeted," Sarraf told reporters during a visit to the Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran, which was struck on Friday.

Iranian media reported that American and Israeli aircraft targeted various strategic and civilian sites in Tehran on Friday afternoon.

These attacks represent a significant escalation in the ongoing hostilities between the US, Israel, and Iran.

According to IRIB, the aerial bombardment struck the university's campus in northern Tehran's Velenjak district a...