Iran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport has resumed flights to 15 foreign destinations following a weeks-long hiatus caused by the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, local media reported on Wednesday.
Necessary licenses were obtained for the resumption of flights at the airport to Türkiye’s Istanbul, China’s Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Thailand’s Bangkok and Oman’s Muscat.
Others are the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s Erbil, Afghanistan’s Kabul, Russia’s Moscow, Qatar’s Doha, Iraq’s Baghdad and Najaf, Saudi Arabia’s Medina and Armenia’s Yerevan, Ramin Kashef-Azar, CEO of Imam Khomeini Airport City Company said.
He added that all the processes pertaining to the reception and transportation of the incoming and outgoing passengers at the airport’s two terminals are being gone through safely.
Iran shut down its airspace after joint U.S. and Israeli strikes starting on Feb. 28, halting civilian aviation operations nationwide.
The country reopened its eastern airspace to international flights on April 18, with the gradual resumption of passenger flights at other airports since then.
Iran’s Civil Aviation Authority said that flight services would return to normal once technical and operational preparations by military and civilian authorities are completed.
