{"id":2838,"date":"2026-03-04T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2838\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:36:06","slug":"iraq-extends-airspace-closure-for-72-hours-amid-regional-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2838\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq extends airspace closure for 72 hours amid regional tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-03-04T10:47:31+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday extended<br \/>\nthe closure of the country\u2019s airspace to all incoming, outgoing, and transit<br \/>\nflights for an additional 72 hours as regional security concerns persist.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice, the authority said that the restriction<br \/>\nwill remain in effect from 12:00 p.m. local time (09:00 UTC) on Wednesday until<br \/>\n12:00 p.m. on Saturday, citing ongoing assessments of the security situation<br \/>\nand regional developments.<\/p>\n<p>The authority had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraq-extends-airspace-closure-for-48-hours-over-regional-security-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously<\/a> prolonged the suspension<br \/>\nof air navigation on Monday for 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-03-04T10:47:31+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday extended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2212,152,2213,94,2211],"class_list":{"0":"post-2838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-airspace-closure","9":"tag-breaking","10":"tag-extension","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraq-extends-airspace-closure-for-72-hours-amid-regional-tensions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116170705044533239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}