US-Israeli forces have reportedly targeted Khorramabad Airport in Lorestan Province, western Iran, according to Mehr News Agency on April 7, 2026. The reported strike on Khorramabad Airport is the latest in a night of heavy strikes being reported across multiple Iranian cities simultaneously, adding a new geographic location to what is now the most widespread single-night military operation of the entire 38-day conflict.
Mehr News Agency is Iran’s state-affiliated news agency and one of the primary official channels through which the Iranian government communicates breaking developments during the conflict.
What Is Khorramabad and Why It Matters
Khorramabad is the capital of Lorestan Province in western Iran, located approximately 360 kilometres southwest of Tehran. The city and its airport occupy strategic significance in the current conflict for several reasons that go beyond its status as a regional transportation hub.
Khorramabad sits in the Zagros Mountain range, the highland terrain of western Iran that borders Iraq. The region is geographically significant as part of the western Iranian corridor through which supplies, personnel, and military equipment have historically moved between Iran and its proxy networks in Iraq and beyond. Lorestan Province and its capital are part of the western Iranian infrastructure that connects the Islamic Republic to the broader resistance axis operating in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
Khorramabad Airport, while primarily a civilian regional airport serving western Iran, carries dual-use potential as a logistics and transport hub in a region that borders Iraq. The targeting of the airport is consistent with a US-Israeli strategy of degrading Iran’s western logistics and transportation infrastructure, potentially to interdict supply routes to Iranian-backed Iraqi militia groups that operate near the Saudi-Iraqi border, where Saudi Arabia issued a Civil Defense alert for the Northern Borders Region earlier today.
The Night’s Geographic Spread
The reported Khorramabad strike adds a fourth major location to the night’s reported strikes, joining Tehran where explosions have been heard across multiple districts including Pirouzi Street in the east, Qom where blast sounds were reported for the first time in this conflict, and Isfahan where a fighter jet was seen and blasts reported earlier in the day.
The geographic spread of tonight’s operations across Tehran in the north, Qom in the centre, Isfahan in the centre-south, and now Khorramabad in the west describes a strike pattern that is covering Iran’s territory far more broadly than any previous night of the conflict. This is no longer a targeted campaign against specific nuclear or military sites. It is a nationwide military operation hitting Iran’s political, religious, nuclear, and regional transportation infrastructure simultaneously on the night of Trump’s final deadline.
What Comes Next
The Khorramabad Airport strike, if confirmed, will add to the cascade of tonight’s developments that markets, governments, and ceasefire mediators are processing simultaneously. The Pakistan back-channel that brokered the Qatar LNG passage deal last week is the one active diplomatic thread in a night that is otherwise defined entirely by military escalation across multiple fronts and multiple cities.
Trump’s deadline expires at 5:30 AM IST on Wednesday April 8. Indian markets open at 9:15 AM IST. The three hours and 45 minutes between those two times will be the most consequential pre-market window in India’s recent financial history.
This article is based on reporting by Mehr News Agency on April 7, 2026. The Khorramabad Airport strike has not been independently confirmed by US or Israeli authorities at time of publication. This article is for informational purposes only.