Hamadan Airbase or Shahrokhi Airbase or Noje Airbase ( fa, پایگاه هوایی شهید نوژه) is an
base located 47 km north of
Hamadan
Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') ( Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. At the 2019 census, its population was 783,300 in 230,775 families. The majority of people living in Ha ...
in the
Hamadān Province. The airbase is named after Captain
Mohammad Noje
Mohammad Noje ( fa, محمد نوژه) (March 25, 1945 – August 16, 1979) was a pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force based at Hamedan Air Base. He and his copilot were both killed in action in an operation against 1979 Kurdish rebellio ...
who had become, on August 16, 1979, the first IRIAF pilot to be killed in action. The
Nojeh coup plot
The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" ( fa, نجات قیام ایران بزرگ; acronymed NEQAB, fa, نقاب, lit=Mask) more commonly known as the Nojeh coup d'état ( fa, کودتای نوژه, Kūdetâ-ye Nowžeh), was a plan to overthrow the ...
took place there in 1980.
Russian Air Force use
Since 16 August 2016,
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Russian Air Force
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Tupolev Tu-22M
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long-range bombers
and
Sukhoi Su-34
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strike fighters
have used the base for conducting raids over Syria as part of the Russia's
military intervention
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into the
Syrian conflict.
The bombing missions support the
Syrian Arab Army
The Syrian Army, officially the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) ( ar, الْجَيْشُ الْعَرَبيُّ السُّورِيُّ, al-Jayš al-ʿArabī as-Sūrī), is the army, land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces. It is the dominant military ...
in operations against the
Syrian opposition
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and the
Islamic State
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. It is the first time Iran has let a foreign country use its territory for military operations since the 1979
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...
.
Later in August 2016, Iran's
minister of defense
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Hossein Dehghan
Hossein Dehghani Poudeh ( fa, حسین دهقانی پوده; born 2 March 1957), commonly known as Hossein Dehghan, is a former IRGC air force officer with the rank of brigadier general and the former minister of defense of Iran. He was designat ...
clarified that
Iran
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was hosting
Russia
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′s aircraft at the request of the
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
n government and Russia was free to utilise it as long as it was necessary. The following day, on 21 August, he appeared to criticise Russia's actions as rash and self-aggrandizing and was quoted as saying, “Under no circumstances will we ever provide Russians with a military base. They have not come here to stay.” On 22 August 2016, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said Russia would stop using the air base for Syria airstrikes "for the time being".
See also
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Nojeh coup plot
The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" ( fa, نجات قیام ایران بزرگ; acronymed NEQAB, fa, نقاب, lit=Mask) more commonly known as the Nojeh coup d'état ( fa, کودتای نوژه, Kūdetâ-ye Nowžeh), was a plan to overthrow the ...
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List of longest runways
References
Iranian airbases
Buildings and structures in Hamadan Province
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