{"id":9590,"date":"2026-03-08T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/9590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:43:20","slug":"idf-destroys-iranian-f-14-fighter-jets-at-isfahan-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/9590\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF destroys Iranian F-14 fighter jets at Isfahan airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF struck over 400 targets throughout Iran over the past day, a military spokesperson announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Among the targets the IDF successfully took out were several of Iran&#8217;s F-14 fighter jets, along with detection and air defense systems which posed a threat to IDF aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The jets were located at the airport in Isfahan, the city where Israel had previously destroyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-888783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ghadr-class ballistic missiles<\/a> and their launch platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Another strike conducted on Friday by the IDF destroyed 16 &#8216;Quds Force&#8217; aircraft at the Mehrabad airport in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/tehran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tehran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iran received 79 of the US-made F-14&#8217;s in 1976 when the country was still ruled by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Iranian Shahs<\/a>. These were taken by the Islamic Republic after the 1979 Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The F-14 was retired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-889183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US Navy<\/a> in 2006, being replaced by the F-18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country that still uses the twin-engine fighter jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF struck over 400 targets throughout Iran over the past day, a military spokesperson announced on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[513,423,34,218,37,215,212,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-9590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-fighter-jets","9":"tag-idf","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-israel-war","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-israel-iran-war","14":"tag-operation-epic-fury","15":"tag-operation-roaring-lion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116194089505266319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","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=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}