Iran tells airlines to avoid its airspace
ARK News.. Amid expectations of an imminent Iranian strike against Israel, authorities in the capital, Tehran, issued a notice to pilots and airlines to avoid its airspace.
The American Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian authorities informed airlines on Monday, August 5, 2024, to avoid its airspace, after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told the G7 foreign ministers in a phone call yesterday, Sunday, that Tehran could attack Israel within 24 to 48 hours.
Blinken did not mention what form the attack could take, and Blinken told his counterparts that the United States is making efforts to break the cycle of escalation, and asked other foreign ministers to exert diplomatic pressure on Iran, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and Israel to maintain maximum restraint.
Tensions in the region have risen following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement in Tehran, last Wednesday, a day after an Israeli raid in Beirut killed Fouad Shukr, a senior military commander in Hezbollah, which is allied with Iran.
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