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(Dan Tri) – German airline Lufthansa today, April 11, extended the suspension of flights to Tehran due to the tense situation in the Middle East due to the possibility that Iran could retaliate against Israel.
The Israeli consulate in Syria was attacked on April 1 (Photo: AFP).
Reuters reported that an Iranian news agency posted information in Arabic on social media platform X saying all airspace over Tehran had been closed for military exercises, but later deleted the information.
Regional countries and the United States have been on alert and raising their alert level for a potential retaliatory strike by Tehran since April 1, when Israeli warplanes were suspected of bombing the university.
Lufthansa Airlines said on April 11 that it had suspended flights to and from Tehran until April 13, extending the suspension by 2 more days.
A Lufthansa spokesman said the airline decided not to operate a flight from Frankfurt to Tehran last weekend to avoid the crew having to get off the plane to spend the night in Tehran.
Lufthansa and its subsidiary Austrian Airlines are the only two Western airlines that fly to Tehran, which is mostly served by Turkish and Middle Eastern airlines.
Austrian Airlines, which is owned by Lufthansa and flies from Vienna to Tehran six times a week, said it still planned to fly on April 11 but was adjusting its timings to avoid overnight transits.
There was no immediate information from other international airlines flying to Tehran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Israel `must be punished and will be` for the attack that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), among them one
Israel, which launched a war in the Gaza Strip six months ago against Tehran-backed Hamas, has not confirmed it was behind the attack on Damascus, but the Pentagon said it was.
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9 types of missiles that Iranian media asserts can reach Israeli territory (Photo: ISNA).
`Hold your breath` waiting for Tehran’s reaction
In a tough response to Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the country would respond if Iran attacked Israel from its own territory.
Bloomberg reported on April 10, citing US and Israeli security sources, that Washington and its allies believe that large-scale missile or drone attacks by Iran or its proxies
The US State Department said that in a phone call with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made it clear that Washington will stand side by side with Israel against any threat from Iran.
A source familiar with the situation said US special envoy for the Middle East Brett McGurk called the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Iraq to ask them to send a message to
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the above countries had a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
On January 8, 2020, the IRGC mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane shortly after it took off from Tehran at a time of rising tensions with Washington over the killing of Quds Force chief General Qasem Soleimani in a
Iranian forces fired missiles at military bases housing US troops in Iraq in retaliation for the murder of General Soleimani on January 3.
According to Israeli statistics, armed groups backed by Tehran have participated in conflicts across the region since Israel launched an attack on Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardment since then.