American and Israeli fighter jets struck multiple strategic and civilian targets inside Iran’s capital on Friday, including Shahid Beheshti University, one of the country’s leading academic institutions, Iranian state media reported. The strikes mark yet another escalation in the ongoing US-Israel-Iran conflict. According to IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), air raids hit Shahid Beheshti University in the Velenjak district of northern Tehran as well as Mehrabad International Airport in the western part of the city, causing damage to infrastructure and academic facilities.The university, established in 1960 and named after prominent revolutionary figure Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, is a major centre for research and higher education in Tehran and has been a hub for thousands of students and faculty. Meanwhile, Iran fired on targets on Friday across West Asia, damaging a desalination plant and setting a refinery ablaze in Kuwait, while American and Israeli airstrikes hit the Islamic Republic as the war neared the end of its fifth week. Tehran has kept the pressure on Israel and its Gulf neighbour, despite US and Israeli insistence that Iran’s military capabilities have been all but destroyed. In a sign that part of Iran’s theocracy could be willing to negotiate, the country’s former top diplomat published a proposal for ending the conflict in an influential American magazine.