Airports in Iran reopen following an attack on Israel

On Monday, airports in Tehran and other parts of Iran reopened.

Following a brief halt brought on by an Israeli air strike on Arch that increased tensions in the area, state media announced this on Monday.

Flights were halted after Iran used drones and missiles to perform its first-ever direct attack on Israeli land late on Saturday. The action was in revenge for a deadly airstrike on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus on April 1, which was largely believed to have been carried out by Israel.

“Flights at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran were back to normal as of 6:00 am (0230 GMT),” according to a report from the official IRNA news agency.

According to IRNA, the internal Tabriz airport in the northwest of the country, as well as the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Shiraz in the south and Mashhad in the northeast are all “operating as scheduled”.

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Some airlines have halted flights to the area in response to the Iranian attack and worries about possible Israeli retaliation.

Israel has not made clear what form its defense may take.

While some airlines, including Australian carrier Qantas, have redirected their aircraft to avoid Iran’s airspace, German airline Lufthansa has canceled its flights to and from Iran.

The attack also prompted the closure of airspace over the course of Saturday and Sunday in a number of Middle Eastern nations, including Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq; however, all of these countries have since reopened.

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