🔸 The Iraqi government says it is in talks with the United States in order to exempt some of the country’s airports from the restrictions imposed on flights by Iranian airlines.

🔸 The media office of the Iraqi prime minister announced on Saturday, the 4th of Mehr, that Baghdad is in “direct dialogue” with Washington so that the resumption of some Iranian flights with humanitarian purposes—including for treatment, study, and religious travel—can be made possible.

🔸 The Iraqi government has not said which airports it wants to be exempted.

🔸 Flights operated by Iranian airlines to Baghdad were suspended starting from the 1st of Mehr. Two days later, on the 3rd of Mehr, the Najaf airport also suspended Iranian flights, and then the airports of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan region joined this restriction.

🔸 As a result, Iran’s flights to all four Iraqi airports that had been destinations for Iranian airlines were suspended.

🔸 On the 17th of Shahrivar, the U.S. Treasury Department added all Iranian airlines—those that had not previously been sanctioned—to the list of sanctions and warned that foreign companies that provide services to them will be subject to sanctions.