Shahid Beheshti University

Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) is a major state research university in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1959 as the National University of Iran, it was renamed after Mohammad Beheshti following the 1979 revolution. It hosts a prominent nuclear engineering faculty whose staff were disproportionately affected by Israeli airstrikes in June 2025: Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Amir Hossein Faghihi, and Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani were all killed on 13 June 2025.