Kerman Airport struck — IDF targeting Iranian airports nationwide alongside 6 military airfields

Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that a US-Israeli strike damaged Kerman Airport in southern Iran: 'Following an American-Zionist attack on Kerman Airport, part of it was damaged and two old, out-of-service aircraft were hit,' according to the governor's office in Kerman province. Kerman is Iran's seventh-largest city and a major transportation hub in the south. It is not immediately clear whether the airport has military facilities. The Kerman strike adds to an expanding pattern of IDF airport targeting across Iran. The Israeli military separately confirmed it had completed strikes against six military airfields in Iran — hitting planes, runways, and air defense and detection systems — in what it described as part of the same strike wave series. Additionally, Iranian media reported that US-Israeli strikes hit Mehrabad Airport in Tehran on Friday (including a fighter jet hangar), and Bushehr Airport on the Gulf coast was struck earlier this week. The campaign against Iranian airports and airfields serves multiple objectives: degrading Iran's ability to scramble interceptors against IDF strike packages, eliminating transport of weapons and supplies to proxy forces, and reducing Iran's capacity for any retaliatory airstrikes. The systematic targeting of both civilian and military airports across Iran — from Tehran to Kerman to Bushehr — represents one of the most comprehensive aviation infrastructure campaigns since the 1991 Gulf War.