{"id":8003,"date":"2026-03-07T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/8003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:15:06","slug":"fires-light-tehran-skyline-after-strikes-hit-iran-mehrabad-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/8003\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires light Tehran skyline after strikes hit Iran Mehrabad Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tehran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tehran;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tehran<\/a>\u2019s skyline being lit up by flames as Mehrabad Airport was hit by explosions on Saturday (7 March).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video shows plumes of smoke rising into the sky from the direction of the airport, which is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Iran;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Iran<\/a>\u2019s busiest and serves as its main domestic hub. It also serves as a facility for the nation\u2019s air force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Videos shared on social media confirmed the attack on the airport and the location has been verified by the Reuters news agency. Hours earlier, satellite imagery of the airport showed multiple aircraft on the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage shows Tehran\u2019s skyline being lit up by flames as Mehrabad Airport was hit by explosions on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,1181,5097,69],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-iran","tag-mehrabad-airport","tag-skyline","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116187609384557195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}