{"id":32179,"date":"2026-03-14T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/32179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:04:05","slug":"switzerland-closes-airspace-to-u-s-flights-over-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/32179\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland closes airspace to U.S. flights over Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) \u2014 Switzerland closed its airspace to United States military flights directly linked to the war with Iran, citing its tradition of neutrality in armed conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Two requests for American reconnaissance planes to overfly Swiss territory on Sunday were rejected, the federal government in Bern said in a statement released on Saturday. Another three flights, including two transport aircraft, were authorized.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government, new U.S. overflight requests that exceed the levels normally registered will be denied, unless the objective is clear and not related to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe neutrality law prohibits overflights by parties involved in the conflict that have a military purpose,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) \u2014 Switzerland closed its airspace to United States military flights directly linked to the war with Iran,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19280,1204,3368,4715,3188,41,17,2278],"class_list":{"0":"post-32179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-airspace","9":"tag-closes","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-flights","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-swiss","14":"tag-switzerland","15":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116229797542295957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}