{"id":8256,"date":"2026-03-07T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/8256\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:24:09","slug":"idf-strikes-mehrabad-airport-in-tehran-destroys-16-irgc-quds-force-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/8256\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF strikes Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, destroys 16 IRGC Quds Force planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IDF strikes Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, destroys 16 IRGC Quds Force planes\" title=\"IDF strikes Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, destroys 16 IRGC Quds Force planes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/22826437-0-1772893053.webp.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: liveuamap.com<\/p>\n<p> The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) reported that it destroyed 16 aircraft used by the IRGC Quds Force at Tehran&#8217;s Mehrabad International Airport during a series of airstrikes in Iran\u2019s capital last night. <\/p>\n<p>The military says that Mehrabad Airport was used by the Quds Force &#8220;as a central hub for arming and funding the regime&#8217;s terrorist proxies in the Middle East,&#8221; including Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/liveuamap.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aircraft loaded with weapons and cash took off from the airport numerous times and landed across the region for the use of the Iranian terror regime&#8217;s proxies,&#8221; the military says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: liveuamap.com The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) reported that it destroyed 16 aircraft used by the IRGC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3763,423,34,424,5083,5163,2081,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-8256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-idf","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-irgc","12":"tag-mehrabad-international-airport","13":"tag-quds-force","14":"tag-strikes","15":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116188588441489502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","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=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}