Iranian media channels report that Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Air Base has been targeted once again, coming on the same day as massive explosions struck Tehran.
Iranian media outlets across different political alignments reported on March 16, 2026, that a major military installation in Saudi Arabia has been attacked.
According to حامیان پزشکیان (Pezeshkian Supporters), a channel aligned with Iran's current reformist administration, the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia was "targeted for the umpteenth time."This identical phrasing was published by the conservative, state-affiliated فارس بینالملل و سیاست خارجی (Fars News International & Foreign Policy), which also declared the base was struck. Neither source provided further details regarding the origin of the strike, the weapons used, or the extent of the damage.
These brief announcements regarding a strike on Saudi territory occurred concurrently with severe security incidents inside Iran. During the early hours of the same day, approximately 30 massive explosions hit western Tehran, severely damaging strategic infrastructure and aircraft at Mehrabad Airport. Local Iranian channels and opposition networks attributed the domestic explosions to potential United States and Israeli involvement.
Both the reformist-aligned channel and the conservative state-affiliated Fars News used identically matched Farsi phrasing ('پایگاه شاهزاده سلطان در عربستان برای چندمین بار هدف قرار گرفت'), indicating a unified narrative or a shared press bulletin being distributed across Iranian media. The sources do not explicitly link the Saudi base targeting to the explosions in Tehran, though the timing of the reports aligns.