Imam Khomeini International Airport IKA / OIIE

Independent ground handler established •••); its own site confirms 740 personnel deployed at IKA providing passenger reception/check-in, ramp and station control services, and describes itself as the largest handling company operating across 14-16 Iranian airports and the only ISAGO-certified operator in the country (also corroborated by the company's LinkedIn profile). NOTE: the commonly-seen tag "formerly Homa Ground Services" is NOT confirmed - Iran Air's own in-house handling arm ("Iran Air Ground Services", a Homa/Iran Air subsidiary per Wikipedia) still appears to exist as a separate entity, so that lineage claim has been dropped. Source: saman.aero (company history and Imam Khomeini airport pages), LinkedIn company profile.

Confirmed directly on owj-co.ir: sole into-plane Jet A-1 supplier at Imam Khomeini International Airport since 2003, describing itself as "the only active company in the field of aircraft fueling" there and "the sole supplier of aviation fuel for all domestic and foreign airlines," serving roughly 210 foreign carriers plus all domestic airlines. Source: owj-co.ir (company site, fetched directly).

Iran Air ("Homa") operates in-house engineering/maintenance for its own fleet; IKA is Iran Air's primary international hub for widebody operations, making transit/line-check and defect-rectification capability there highly plausible and consistent with general aviation-press coverage of Iran Air's post-sanctions in-house MRO self-sufficiency. NOTE: the previously-cited news.mrud.ir page could not be reached (connection refused) and partoo.net was checked directly and found to be an unrelated IATA-training-institute site with no maintenance content - neither citation stands.

DOWNGRADED from "available": Wikipedia confirms Iran Air's headquarters and legacy administrative/technical base is at Mehrabad Airport (THR), not IKA, so the claim that heavy/base airframe checks ("سبک و سنگین") happen in a two-hangar facility specifically at IKA is unconfirmed rather than established - base maintenance may in fact sit at Mehrabad. Do not assert an IKA hangar count or heavy-check capability without a source that actually names IKA.

"Iran Air Catering" is a confirmed Iran Air subsidiary (Wikipedia subsidiaries list) and IKA is Iran Air's primary international base, so an in-house flight kitchen there feeding Iran Air's own operations is well supported. The specific figures (16,000+ sqm, 32,000 meals/day, four 12-hour shifts) come only from the previously-cited yjc.ir article, which could not be - treat those numbers as reported-but-unconfirmed. The "supplies Lufthansa's Tehran-Frankfurt flights since 2019" claim is flagged as likely WRONG: 2019 is when Lufthansa actually suspended/scaled back its Tehran service (sanctions-related), not when a new catering contract began - this specific claim has been removed rather than repeated.

Aircraft cabin cleaning is a standard IATA SGHA annex typically bundled into full ramp/turnaround handling, and Saman markets "comprehensive" handling, but no page independently confirms cleaning as a named service line; the previously-cited flysepehran.com source does not actually contain this content (checked directly - it is Sepehran Airlines' ticketing site with no industry-overview page). Status downgraded to unconfirmed pending a better source.

Saman's IKA page lists "aircraft equipment coordination" among its services, and the company's homepage highlights a GSE training simulator ("first in the Middle East"), but it remains unconfirmed whether GSE is supplied/rented to third parties separately from Saman's own handling operations.

Cargo acceptance and delivery listed as one of Saman's core service lines at its IKA station page, bundled into the standard ramp/turnaround handling package for contracted carriers; distinct from the separate Homa Group cargo-terminal warehousing operation. Source: saman.aero IKA airport page.

Confirmed directly on homa-group.com: cargo services at IKA across four lines - warehousing & weighing, handling, X-ray security scanning, and packaging (including wooden/metal crating) - available 24/7. The "first specialised air-cargo handler licensed 2011" and "office opposite IKA customs" claims are unconfirmed (the previously-cited iran-transportation.com was checked directly and contains no content about this company at all) and have been softened accordingly. Source: homa-group.com (fetched directly). · 24/7

Confirmed directly on persiancargo.org: air-cargo agent/freight forwarder with IKA as its main hub (also serves Mehrabad, Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz), handling international air freight, exports/imports, dangerous goods and live-animal transport; issues air waybills for major airlines. PHONE CORRECTED: the site's own contact number is •••, not the previously-listed ••• - the "No.10, Air Cargo Terminal" office address and CCTV-monitored-warehousing detail are plausible but not. Source: persiancargo.org (fetched directly).

IKAC is confirmed as the airport operator (Wikipedia: operates the facility for the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development), so it is the plausible body responsible for security oversight, but the previous entry's specific framing is unreliable and has been softened: (1) "حراست" (Herasat) is typically an internal/administrative security-and-counter-intelligence office within Iranian organisations, not the unit that performs passenger/baggage X-ray screening, so labelling it as the aviation-security service provider may be a category mismatch; (2) the cited partoguard.ir returned no retrievable content and could not be verified as related to IKA at all; (3) the specific K9-unit/quarantine-store claims are unconfirmed. In most countries (and plausibly Iran) passenger/hold-baggage security screening at a major international gateway is run by state civil-aviation-security/police rather than the commercial airport-operator company - this needs a better source before being asserted as IKAC-provided.

Passenger reception/check-in and boarding confirmed as a named Saman service at IKA; airside crew transport is not separately itemised but is standard within the ramp/turnaround package it operates under IATA-aligned handling standards. Source: saman.aero IKA airport page. (Dropped the earlier "Flock Aviation Services Marketplace" citation - flock.aero could not be reached/verified.)

IKA page lists "ramp services and flight operations" and "station control and support services" among Saman's divisions, consistent with load-control/flight-coordination duties as the handling agent for contracted carriers. Source: saman.aero IKA airport page.

Confirmed via Wikipedia (Imam Khomeini International Airport article: AccorHotels opened a Novotel on-site in 2015; "Rexan International Airport Hotels subsequently took over management, renaming them Rexan and Remis, respectively" - i.e. Novotel became Rexan) and directly on rexanhotels.com: 5-star hotel roughly 5 minutes' walk from the terminal, part of Rexan Hospitality Group. Dropped the unconfirmed "'Roxana'" intermediate-rebrand aside - no source supports it. Whether formal airline crew-rate contracts exist remains unconfirmed.

Confirmed via Wikipedia (the airport's ex-Ibis property was renamed Remis, sister to Rexan/ex-Novotel, both under Rexan International Airport Hotels) and directly on rexanhotels.com: 4-star, 196-room property directly opposite Terminal 1, connected via pedestrian bridge, well suited to short-stay crew-rest use; phone number confirmed as shared with Rexan's reception line. Whether formal airline crew-rate contracts exist remains unconfirmed.