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Various countries have accused that university of being in bed with the IRGC and development of weapons and involved in the nuclear program.

If it's engaged in military activity it's a military target. And in highly militarized societies, it's hard to not be top of the line in something the military would need to use and not be involved.

Plutonium production was developed in a lab at the University of Chicago. While production was scaled up at an entirely different location, would Japan have been okay to bomb that lab, even at a university? Well, since it was a specifically military project, yeah. University of Chicago made itself a target. (Albeit the "laws of war" were different at the time, so let's be a bit anachronistic about that. Note that most military research that happens at universities these days is either not weapons development or is so early in weapons development that it's multi-purposed. Rather like developing drones would be okay, and improving them, only to find out that, gee, your research is suddenly used by the military.)

That use and not official designation is what determines a military target should be obvious. A government could declare Fort Bragg to be a "peace base" engaged in 'measures pure of purpose in advancing the cause of peace and justice' and it would still be the same military camp.