This photo taken on April 15, 2024 shows the terminal of the Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. Iranian airports have lifted flight restrictions and resumed normal operation following Iran's large-scale retaliatory military operation against Israel early on Sunday, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported on Monday. (Xinhua/Shadati)
TEHRAN, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Iranian airports have lifted flight restrictions and resumed normal operation following Iran's large-scale retaliatory military operation against Israel early on Sunday, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported on Monday.
According to a directive from the Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) of Iran, Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport resumed flights as of 5:30 a.m. local time on Monday (0200 GMT), ISNA quoted Ebrahim Moradi, a member of the airport's board of directors, as saying.
He added the lifting of flight suspensions applied to all other airports of the country, whose flights had been canceled.
The public relations office of Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport announced that the airport had resumed flights since 6:00 a.m. local time Monday.
According to ISNA, flights were suspended in cities including Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Bushehr, Ilam, Sanandaj, Ardabil, Urmia, Kermanshah, Khorramabad, Kerman, Ahvaz, Abadan, Hamedan, Shahrekord and Dezful.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said in two separate statements early Sunday that it had launched "tens of missiles and drones" and "successfully hit and destroyed" important military targets belonging to the Israeli army. Several Iranian airports suspended their flights until Monday after the attack, according to ISNA.
The attack followed the Israeli strike on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 1, which killed seven Iranians, including two veteran commanders. ■
This photo taken on April 15, 2024 shows the terminal of the Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. Iranian airports have lifted flight restrictions and resumed normal operation following Iran's large-scale retaliatory military operation against Israel early on Sunday, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported on Monday. (Xinhua/Shadati)
