Imam Khomeini International Airport is located in Ahmadabad, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. The airport

Airport

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 is located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of the city near the localities of Robat-Karim and Eslamshahr

Eslamshahr

Eslamshahr is a city in and the capital of Eslamshahr County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 357,171, in 91,293 families....

. It was designed to replace Mehrabad International Airport

Mehrabad International Airport

Mehrabad International Airport is an airport that serves Tehran, Iran. It was the primary airport of Tehran in both international and domestic passenger traffic but has been replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport in most of its international flights...

, which is in the west of the city, now inside the city boundaries. The airport, originally designated as Ahmadabad, is now named Imam Khomeini International Airport.
The construction began before the Iranian Revolution

Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the...

 of 1979.