🔻Restrictions on foreign flights of Iran’s passenger planes are being expanded, and in recent hours it was announced that flights to and from Iran from Iraqi airports in Najaf, Sulaymaniyah and Erbil will also be stopped. Previously, with the implementation of new U.S. Treasury sanctions, Iran’s flights to the Baghdad airport had also been cut off.

Two sources told Reuters that the Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in Iraq will stop Iranian flights from Friday, the third of Mehr.

Ramin Kashaf Azar, CEO of Imam Khomeini International Airport company, told Iranian media that “as of 2:00 a.m. today (Friday), it was announced that the Najaf airport is closed to Iranian flights” and that “no new decision has been made to resume these flights.”

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