Qasr-e Shirin Airport

Destruction during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). The city of Qasr-e Shirin is located directly on the border with Iraq and was one of the first Iranian cities to be captured and occupied by Iraqi forces in September 1980. The airport, being a strategic infrastructure asset, was destroyed in the conflict and rendered permanently inoperable.

The airport is completely abandoned and non-operational. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (34.516666, 45.566666) clearly shows the remnants of a single, heavily degraded runway. The surface is broken and unmaintained, with vegetation growing through it. There is no remaining infrastructure such as a terminal, control tower, or hangars. The site is essentially an open, undeveloped piece of land marked by the faint outline of its former runway.

Prior to its destruction, Qasr-e Shirin Airport was a small domestic airfield serving the westernmost region of Kermanshah province. Its primary significance was its strategic location, providing air connectivity to a key border city for civilian travel, government transport, and potentially light cargo. It played a role in connecting this remote border region to the rest of the country before the war devastated the area's infrastructure.

There are no known plans to repair or reopen the original, destroyed airport. However, for over 15 years, there have been persistent discussions and proposals by local and provincial officials to construct a *new* airport in or near Qasr-e Shirin. The main drivers for this new project are to support the Qasr-e Shirin Special Economic Zone, facilitate the significant trade volume passing through the Parviz Khan and Khosravi border crossings with Iraq, and to serve the millions of religious pilgrims who cross the border, particularly during the Arba'een pilgrimage. Despite repeated promises and the completion of preliminary studies, the project has consistently stalled due to a lack of national government funding and has not progressed to the construction phase.