Iran resumes flights suspended after retaliatory strike on Israel

Iran has resumed its flights, ending the suspension that was enforced following the country's retaliatory missile strike on Israel.

Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization spokesman, Jafar Yazarloo, announced on Thursday that the restrictions on both domestic and international flights were lifted from 05:00 a.m. Thursday (0130 GMT).

“After ensuring favorable and safe flight conditions and ending of the restrictions, airlines are now permitted to resume their scheduled flights,” official IRNA news agency quoted Yazarloo as saying. 

He also noted that the airlines will refund passengers for canceled flights.

The Public Relations Department of Mehrabad International Airport in the capital Tehran also confirmed that flights at the airport have resumed and operations are back to normal.

Nationwide restrictions and flight cancellations were implemented for all flights across the country on Tuesday to enhance safety and in the wake of the missile strike targeting Israel.

Aviation authorities in the region also announced flight cancellations after Iran’s missile attack against Israel and many airlines adjusted their flight routes during the past few days.

Iran cancels all flights for 12 hours after missile attacks on Zionist entity

Iran’s aviation authorities have suspended all commercial flights after IRGC attacks on the occupied Palestinian territories

On Tuesday, Iran launched a barrage of missiles toward the Zionist entity’s major military and intelligence bases in a retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II, which set off sirens all over the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a statement said that the attacks were a response to Israel’s assassinations of Hamas’ political chief Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan as well as the regime’s ongoing deadly aggression against Gaza and Lebanon.

The IRGC warned that any move by Israel to retaliate the Tuesday missile attack will be met with a more crushing and destructive response.

Moreover, Iranian officials declared that the country's response took place in line with its right to legitimate self-defense and came after a long period of self-restraint, which pointed to the Islamic Republic’s responsible approach towards the issue of regional and international peace and security.

Israel censors reporting on sites hit in Iran’s retaliatory attack: Report

Israel reportedly shuts military installations and prevents the publication of reports on impacts of the missiles attack by Iran.

Iran has announced that 90 percent of the missiles launched in the attack successfully hit the designated targets amid high censorship by Israeli and Western media.

The response, meanwhile, only targeted the regime’s military and security installations, contrasting Tel Aviv’s way of striking civilians and civilian targets.

Israel is currently waging brutal two-front aggression that has killed almost 41,700 people in the Gaza Strip and wounded nearly 2,000 others in Lebanon over the past year.

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