Mohammad Reza Aref, Iran’s first vice president, has accused the US of deploying a “bunker-buster” bomb to target Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology, Al Jazeera reports.

“The bunker-buster bomb attack on Sharif University is a symbol of Trump’s madness and ignorance”, Aref said in a post on X.

“He [Trump] fails to understand that Iran’s knowledge is not embedded in concrete to be destroyed by bombs; the true fortress is the will of our professors and elites”, said Aref, who is a Stanford University-educated engineer.

“No barbarity in history has ever been able to strip science from the Iranian people. Science is rooted in our souls, and this fortress will not crumble.”