Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport targeted by strikes: Iranian media

Published March 3, 2026 Updated March 3, 2026 08:31pm

Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, which mainly handles domestic flights, has been struck as the United States and Israel keep up their bombardment of Iran for a fourth day, AFP reports.

The Mehr news agency has published photos showing a cloud of grey smoke rising into the sky behind what appeared to be a runway.

“The American-Zionist (Israeli) terrorists attacked the area around the Mehrabad Airport” in the capital’s west, it says.

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