Iran’s state media reports death of airport security employee after US-Israeli strike

An airport security employee has died after sustaining wounds in a US-Israeli strike on a radar installation at Jiroft airport in southeastern Iran, according to Iranian state media. The strike targeted a radar site at the airport, located in Kerman province, adding another casualty to a series of military operations that have defined the escalating conflict between the US-Israel coalition and Iran this year. A pattern of strikes on radar infrastructure The Jiroft attack fits into a broader operational template that has played out across multiple Iranian provinces in 2026. Joint US-Israeli strikes have previously hit radar installations in Isfahan’s Kashan area and in Lorestan province, targeting the backbone of Iran’s air defense network. Iranian state media has documented these attacks with a consistent narrative: military infrastructure targeted, civilian damage reported, casualties tallied. The pattern of strikes suggests a methodical approach to dismantling Iran’s detection capabilities across geographically dispersed locations rather than concentrating firepower on a single region. The verification gap One persistent challenge with reporting on these strikes is the absence of...