Iranian airports resumed flight operations on Monday, as reported by official media, following their suspension or disruption due to the attack launched by Tehran against Israel on Saturday night, which escalated regional tensions. The official news agency (IRNA) confirmed that "flights at Imam Khomeini International Airport, the main airport in Tehran, returned to normal" starting from 02:30 GMT. Operations also returned to normal at the capital's second airport, Mehrabad, as well as in the airports of Tabriz (northwest), Mashhad (northeast), and Shiraz (south).
Iranian authorities had suspended airport operations concurrently with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' drone and missile attack against the Israeli state on Saturday night, in response to an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Damascus two weeks earlier. The strike in the Syrian capital resulted in the deaths of seven members of the Revolutionary Guard, including two senior officers. Before the Iranian attack, Israel had warned that it would retaliate against attacks on its territory. Last week, German airline Lufthansa announced a temporary suspension of its flights to and from Tehran, while other companies refrained from flying in Iranian airspace. Additionally, several countries, including Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel, closed their airspaces and airports starting Saturday night amid the attack and fears of escalation, reopening them on Sunday.
