🔸 Reuters, citing two informed sources, reported that the airports of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan region have suspended flights of Iranian aircraft from Friday, the third of Mehr.

🔸 A review of the website of Tehran’s “Imam Khomeini” Airport on the morning of Friday also showed that a flight by an Iranian aircraft to Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, had been canceled on Friday.

🔸 Hours before the publication of this report, it was announced that Najaf Airport had also stopped flights of Iranian aircraft from the beginning of Friday.

🔸 Hossein Mihana, the manager of this airport, told Agence France-Presse that “as a result of the issuance of instructions by the Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq to the governor of Najaf,” all flights between Iran and Najaf Airport have been suspended.

🔸 Najaf city airport, located in southern Baghdad, is one of the main hubs for flights to and from Iran.

🔸 Iraq had previously also stopped flights of Iranian aircraft to Baghdad Airport.

🔸 These decisions are being made following the implementation of U.S. secondary sanctions on all Iranian airlines starting from the first of Mehr.