Strike Near Bahman Cultural Center and Bahman Book City

On March 7, 2026, an attack on a target near Bahman Book City and Bahman Cultural Center caused extensive blast damage to the surrounding cultural facilities. According to IRNA, two bombs struck near Bahman Book City at around 3:00 a.m. The blast destroyed large sections of the bookstore's walls and caused further damage to its building, including its doors, windows, and display window.

Approximately five billion tomans' worth of merchandise was reportedly damaged, while the estimated cost of rebuilding the building was three billion tomans. The store's remaining undamaged goods were subsequently moved to a publisher's warehouse because the building no longer had functioning doors and windows.

Bahman Book City is located opposite the Bahman Cultural Center. The manager of the bookstore reported that the nearby blast also damaged the Bahman Cultural Center, District 16's Municipal Zone 2 building, and the local neighborhood center. The cultural center itself sustained damage during the attacks, although the supplied sources do not provide a detailed breakdown of the damage to its different sections.

The Bahman Cultural Center, located in Bahman Square in southern Tehran, was opened in 1991 as the first cultural center in southern Tehran. The complex includes performance, educational, library, music, sports, children's, and gallery spaces.

No one was reported injured or killed in the incident. The supplied sources indicate that neither the Bahman Book City nor the cultural center was directly targeted; the damage resulted from attacks on a nearby target and the resulting blast.