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Passengers were standing in line at Imam Khomeini International Airport Saturday as flights resumed. via REUTERS<\/p>\n
Neighboring countries \u2014 including Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates \u2014 resumed commercial flights within 24 to 72 hours of those strikes. But Iran continued to face a barrage of strikes that made reopening Tehran\u2019s airport too risky.<\/p>\n
Resuming flights only became possible after the two-week cease-fire with the US<\/a> brokered by Pakistan on April 8 \u2014 and extended by President Trump<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n Iranian authorities said they have started talks with foreign airlines, as the fragile cease-fire continues.<\/p>\n \u201cConsultations have started with foreign airlines to explain the status of routes and re-absorb flights,\u201d Mohammad Amirani, chief executive of Iran Airports and Air Navigation Company, told state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. <\/p>\n \u201cBut\u00a0the increase in the number of these flights will happen in a phased manner.\u201d<\/p>\n Airports on the Iran\u2019s eastern side \u2014 which borders Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan \u2014 will be prioritized due to safety reasons, Amirani said.<\/p>\n Flights from the central and western region \u2014 which borders Iraq \u2014 will resume more slowly, he added, based on security assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran resumed commercial flights from Tehran\u2019s international airport Saturday, marking the first time since its war with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2237,543,34,37,181,50,69,1176,51,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-83320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-flights","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-oman","13":"tag-saudi-arabia","14":"tag-tehran","15":"tag-turkey","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116466592304183393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83320","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=83320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/flight-board-displays-flight-information-126359365.jpg\")
Several flights to Istanbul, Turkey, were on the schedule Saturday at Tehran\u2019s international airport. via REUTERS<\/p>\n